Westernization movement, also known as self-help movement and self-improvement movement. It was a self-help movement in 19, 60' s and 90' s, in which Westernization School introduced western military equipment, machine production and science and technology to save the Qing dynasty. The slogan of the Westernization Movement was "self-improvement" in the early stage and "seeking wealth" in the later stage.

Specific measures are:

1, 19 In the 1960s, the Westernization School set up military enterprises with the goal of "self-improvement", including Anqing Inner Ordnance Institute, Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration and Fujian Shipping Bureau.

2. Since 1970s, the Westernization School has set up private enterprises, such as Kaiping Mining Bureau, China Merchants Bureau and Hanyang Iron Works, for the purpose of "seeking money".

3. The Westernization School equipped the army with new guns and ships, reformed the army and established a new navy while holding modern industries.

In addition, the Westernization School translated a large number of books in western languages and introduced western culture. It has also established many new schools to train translators, military and industrial talents, and sent people abroad to study.

Extended data:

Learn from foreigners' long skills to master foreigners' languages and make Wei Yuan's Atlas of Sea Countries. Later, it became the guiding ideology of the early Westernization Movement.

Teacher: verb, learn from XXX;

Yi is a savage. The Han nationality in ancient Central Plains disparaged the frontier minorities, especially the foreigners in the west.

Skills: Advanced technology. At that time, China people thought that China's political system and economic system were better than those of foreign countries. The only thing inferior to them is to build a strong ship and sharpen the guns. Here mainly refers to learning western weapons manufacturing technology.

System: restraint, uniform.

Learn advanced military technology from foreigners to resist foreign aggression.

Wei Yuan was a great scholar with first-class knowledge of western learning at that time. 1842, he compiled the annals of nautical charts based on the annals of the four kingdoms compiled by Lin zexu. At first, it was 50 volumes, up to 1852, and now there is 100 volume, which widely introduces western knowledge and expounds the idea of "learning from foreigners and gaining skills to control foreigners".

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