1. Lin Zexu: He was "the first person to open his eyes to see the world" in modern China, and organized the compilation of "Records of the Four Continents".

2. Wei Yuan: Author of "Hai Guo Tu Zhi", he proposed the idea of ??"learning from foreigners to develop skills to conquer foreigners", advocating learning from foreign advanced military and scientific technology, in order to enrich the country and strengthen its army, and resist foreign aggression. .

3. Wang Tao: Wang Tao founded China's first political newspaper, Circular Daily, and its articles played a major role in promoting the development of political newspapers and periodicals.

4. Xue Fucheng: modern essayist, diplomat, one of the main leaders of the Westernization Movement, and the initiator of capitalist industry and commerce.

5. Ma Jianzhong: His major works include "Shi Ke Zhai Ji Sayings and Actions" and ten volumes of "Wentong" (commonly known as "Ma Shi Wentong"), which uses Latin grammar to study the linguistic structure of Chinese classics. It is China's first relatively systematic grammar work.

6. Zheng Guanying: The earliest theorist with a complete reform ideological system in modern China, an enlightenment thinker, an industrialist, an educator, a litterateur, a philanthropist and a patriot. Together with Tang Tingshu, Xu Run and Xi Zhengfu, he was known as the "four major compradors" in the late Qing Dynasty.

7. Yan Fu: The translation standards of "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance" proposed by Yan Fu had a profound impact on the translation work of later generations. He was a very influential bourgeois enlightenment thinker in the late Qing Dynasty and one of the "advanced Chinese" in modern Chinese history who looked to Western countries for truth.

8. Kang Youwei: As an activist in late Qing society, Kang Youwei embodied the direction of history when he advocated the reform movement. But later, he became the spiritual leader of the restoration movement.

9. Liang Qichao: a modern Chinese thinker, politician, educator, historian, writer, one of the leaders of the Hundred Days Reform (Hundred Days Reform), a representative figure of modern Chinese reformists and neo-Legalists.

10. Sun Yat-sen: a great national hero, a great patriot, a great pioneer of the Chinese democratic revolution, the founder of the Republic of China and the Chinese Kuomintang, an advocate of the Three People's Principles, and the founder of the "Five-Power Constitution" 》. He was the first to raise the banner of thorough anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, "rising from revolution and ending two thousand years of feudal monarchy."