After the First Opium War, some progressive patriots began to "see the world with their eyes open", represented by Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan. Core meaning: Enlighten people's consciousness and get rid of the cage that locks the country. After the Second Opium War, the realization of the shortage of utensils triggered the Westernization Movement to set up military and civilian industries and send overseas students to study abroad. The new content is "training and making weapons" to change the state of lagging behind the West militarily. However, both of them were based on the idea of "taking middle school as the body and western learning as the application", so they could not change the backward and poor state of China, but to a certain extent, they were still of progressive significance at that time. In particular, the Westernization Movement introduced some modern scientific production technologies and trained a group of skilled workers, which objectively stimulated the emergence of Chinese national capitalism and restrained the expansion of foreign economic forces.