At the end of 19, the idea of "saving the nation from extinction to survive" was first put forward by reformists such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to express their desire to save the nation from peril and realize the country's prosperity through reform. In the reform and political reform movement, "saving the nation for survival" became an important ideological banner, which promoted the development of the political reform movement, so saving the nation for survival was the slogan of the reform and political reform movement.

The Reform Movement of 1898, also known as the Reform Movement of 1898 and the Reform Movement of 1898, was a bourgeois reform movement represented by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in the late Qing Dynasty. It advocated learning from the West, advocating scientific culture, reforming the political and educational systems, and developing agriculture, industry and commerce through Emperor Guangxu.