This is simple, and I have been bullied by foreigners. At that time, there was a slogan called "learning from foreigners to control foreigners." In the early days of the Westernization Movement, the Westernization School established a number of modern military industries under the banner of "self-improvement" and adopted advanced western production technologies. In the later period of the Westernization Movement, in order to solve the difficulties of military industry in terms of capital, fuel and transportation, the Westernization School set up many civilian industries under the banner of "seeking wealth".

In essence, the Westernization School advocated "middle school as the body and western learning as the application", hoping to maintain the stormy feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty with advanced technology.