Which of the following statements is not a correct description of qing china? agricultural production improved significantly during the qing era the general prosperity of chinese society during early qing rule led to an enormous growth in population by the 1900s trade between china and south, and southeast asia flourished during this era the qing rulers, kangxi and qianlong while great patrons of art and literature, were militarily weak and did not pay attention to developing the army the enormous growth in population during the qing era resulted in the inability of the government to attend to the public needs. this in turn led to greater political unrest in the later qing era