industry run by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
到了二十年前,即第一次帝国主义世界大战的时期,由于欧美帝国主义国家忙于战争,暂时放松了对于中国的压迫,中国的民族工业,主要是纺织业和面粉业,又得到了进一步的发展。
到了二十年前,即第一次帝國主義世界大戰的時期,由於歐美帝國主義國家忙於戰爭,暫時放鬆了對於中國的壓迫,中國的民族工業,主要是紡織業和麪粉業,又得到了進一步的發展。
dào le èr shí nián qián , jí dì - yī cì dì guó zhǔ yì shì jiè dà zhàn de shí qī , yóu yú ōu - měi dì guó zhǔ yì guó jiā máng yú zhàn zhēng , zàn shí fàng sōng le duì yú zhōng guó de yā pò , zhōng guó de mín zú gōng yè , zhǔ yào shì fǎng zhī yè hé miàn fěn yè , yòu dé dào le jìn yī bù de fā zhǎn .
Then about twenty years ago, during the first imperialist world war, China's national industry expanded, chiefly in textiles and flour milling, because the imperialist countries in Europe and America were preoccupied with the war and temporarily relaxed their oppression of China.
Materially, [the enemy] is robbing the common people even of their food and clothing, making them cry out in hunger and cold; he is plundering the means of production, thus ruining and enslaving China's national industries.