The impact of burning Yuanmingyuan is divided into many aspects.

1. Politically, this incident caused China to lose a lot of its own territory and sovereignty, and the degree of semi-colonial society in China gradually increased, which even made the Qing Dynasty begin to help foreign invaders and lost a lot of initiative. The Qing dynasty was indifferent to the burning of Yuanmingyuan, which also made other countries see China's interests and began to organize themselves to occupy China

2. Economically speaking, the burning of Yuanmingyuan led to the direct development of other countries' forces in China, which facilitated their economic development, but the development of China was suppressed. In addition, China has a large population, which also allows the foreign powers to get cheap labor, but at that time, the Qing government's army could not defeat the foreign powers and could not resist, which led to the foreign invaders becoming more rampant.

Later, the great powers forced China to sign the Beijing Treaty, which also enabled foreign invaders to act recklessly in China. The burning of Yuanmingyuan also led to the loss of a large number of cultural relics in China and the destruction of China's long history and culture. According to statistics, the loss of cultural relics reached 1.5 million pieces, which is also very valuable when converted into silver, which also shows how heavy the loss in China is this time.