Westernization movement is also called self-help movement and self-improvement movement. The slogan of the early stage is self-improvement, and the slogan of the later stage is seeking wealth. The main guiding ideology is that middle school is the body and western learning is the use.

In the Westernization Movement, the representative figures of the Westernization School are Prince Gong, and the local representatives are Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Zeng Guofan and Zuo.

Introduction to Westernization Movement:

The Westernization Movement was a self-help reform movement carried out by the Westernization School in the feudal ruling class of the Qing Dynasty in order to maintain the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty. It was progressive, backward and conservative.

The Westernization Movement was mainly a self-help movement led by the failed feudal big landlord ruling class. It also promoted the development of productive forces in modern China, promoted the emergence of Chinese national capitalism, opened the gap of feudal education system, and promoted the modernization of national defense. Moreover, the Westernization Movement resisted the economic input of foreign capitalism to a certain extent.

Westernization movement uses western technology and equipment for production, which belongs to modern enterprises. Although the civil industry set up by the Westernization School in the later period took the form of official supervision and commercial office and joint venture between officials and businessmen, it was essentially a capitalist enterprise with feudal factors.