When the Westernization School set up modern industries, it put "calming China" and "opposing foreign countries" together. The former reflects the domestic class contradiction, while the latter reflects the contradiction between the Qing rulers and foreign invaders. However, after the Second Opium War, when the corrupt rulers of the Qing Dynasty had frequent "internal troubles and foreign invasion", the Westernization School could only rely on the western powers to jointly suppress the people and maintain the crumbling regime. Therefore, the result of the practice of Westernization Movement is bound to deny "foreign enemies". If the Westernization Movement is a reform, it can only be a "reform" in a semi-colonial direction. All the great powers are willing to support westernization, which is proof. Li Hongzhang said that the Huai army had the confidence to win when it met "bandits from the mainland", and it was "unclear whether it would win or lose" when it met foreign enemies. Ding Richang, an official of the Westernization School, said that his naval gun "can prevent bandits in the town, but not foreign invasion". The Westernization Movement has been going on for 30 years, but it has not made China rich. On the contrary, it has made the first generation of warlord groups in China rich under the slogan of "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth".

The Westernization School subjectively didn't want capitalism to appear in China. Even when the civil industry was founded, it was repeatedly said that similar private enterprises were not allowed, which hindered the emergence of capitalism to some extent. However, under the feudal system in China, the Westernization School introduced a new productive force, advanced western science and technology, which was incompatible with the feudal relations of production, objectively and inevitably accelerated the disintegration of the feudal relations of production, thus stimulating the emergence of Chinese national capitalism, which was independent of the subjective will of the Westernization School. In order to solve the problem of funds, the Westernization School set up civilian industries, and adopted the methods of "official supervision and business operation" and "official-business joint operation" to absorb private capital. This "commercial stock" part is the factor of national capitalism. Since the 1970s, a group of bureaucrats, landlords and businessmen have directly invested in modern civilian industries, which has finally enabled China to have a little advanced production capacity, promoted the emergence of national capitalism, and also promoted the emergence of the bourgeoisie and the growth of the proletariat.

In addition, the argument between the Westernization School and the die-hards and their incomplete criticism of the die-hards have shaken the absolute authority of adhering to the tradition of ancestral training and standardizing the famous religion to a certain extent, and opened up a good atmosphere for learning from the West. Westernization School has translated many foreign scientific and technological books, sent overseas students of different ages and qualifications, trained a group of diplomatic and scientific talents, and introduced western social science knowledge, which also played a pioneering role in promoting the spread of democratic ideas. On this basis, in the 1970s and 1980s of 19, a group of early bourgeois reformists in China were separated from the westernization bureaucrats.

Finally, the establishment of Westernization civil industry partially resisted the expansion of foreign economic forces. For example, in 1872, Li Hongzhang founded the Steamship Merchants Bureau, so that "the benefits of Neijiang offshore will not be taken up by foreigners". For more than three years, the loss of foreign ships was13 million, and the American flag company was returned to the well by China merchants because it was unbearable. After the opening-up of the official textile layout in Hubei Province, the import of foreign fabrics in Jianghan Customs decreased by more than 100,000 pieces every year. China's capital can beat foreign businessmen, which was once considered as "original".