林增平从四个方面论证了中国近代资本原始积累的基本特征 ,即“一极积累的贫困绰绰有余 ,一极积累的财富严重不足” ,从而为他研究中国近代资产阶级问题找到了“突破口”。他通过对中西封建城市和工商业的比较研究 ,论述了近代资产阶级起源于一部分地主、官僚、商人、买办的经济和历史原因。他还从三个方面论证了在中国资本主义的初步发展阶段 ,即 1895年至第一次世界大战前 ,中国民族资产阶级开始形成一个独立的社会阶级。他的这些观点不仅有厚实的史实基础 ,同时也有历史唯物主义的理论依据 ,已经并将继续对中国近代史研究起着重要的指导作用 Lin Zengping demonstrated the basic characteristics of the primitive accumulation of capital in modern China from four aspects: “there is more than enough poverty in one pole and a serious shortage of wealth accumulated in one pole,” thus finding a “breakthrough” in his study of the modern bourgeois issues in China. Through a comparative study of the feudal cities and business in China and the West, he expounds the economic and historical reasons why the modern bourgeoisie originated from some landlords, bureaucrats, businessmen and compradors. He also demonstrated from three aspects that in the initial stage of development of capitalism in China, from 1895 until the First World War, the Chinese national bourgeoisie began to form an independent social class. His views not only have a solid historical basis but also the theoretical basis of historical materialism, and they have and will continue to play an important guiding role in the study of modern Chinese history