2. Introduce advanced western technology.

3. Objectively stimulated the development of Chinese national capitalism.

4. Resist foreign economic invasion to a certain extent.

However, the Westernization Movement did not make China prosperous.

Using the "two-point theory", we should correctly understand the historical role of the Westernization Movement. The Westernization Movement strengthened the Qing government's ability to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolution, but it also resisted foreign aggression, but its ultimate goal was to maintain the feudal autocratic rule of the Qing Dynasty. Judging from the tendency, the Westernization Movement demanded to change the laws of ancestors, opposed to blindly rejecting the die-hards, and advocated learning from advanced western science and technology, which not only complied with the development of "new ideas". It also had an important influence on the later bourgeois reform thought. From the objective effect, although the Westernization Movement did not make China prosperous, it resisted the economic aggression of foreign capitalism to a certain extent and induced the emergence of Chinese national capitalism. It is the turning point of China's development from traditional manual production to large-scale machine production, which has developed China's modern military and education and promoted the democratic revolution and modernization of China as a whole.

Limitations:

First, the Westernization School tried to use some advantages of western capitalism to maintain feudal autocracy without touching the decadent feudal system. The contradiction between this means and the foundation makes the Westernization Movement doomed to be impossible. At the same time, the Westernization Movement was obstructed and destroyed by die-hards all over the country, which increased the resistance to the development of the Westernization Movement.

Second, the class limitations of the Westernization School itself determine that they are not only the founders and operators of modern industry, but also their destroyers and destroyers. Their feudal yamen and bureaucratic system will inevitably lead to the failure of westernization enterprises.

Third, one of the purposes of the Westernization Movement was to resist foreign aggression, but the Westernization School insisted on "harmony without difference" and compromised and surrendered. The modern enterprises they founded have the function of resisting foreign aggression and benefiting people, but they can't change the semi-colonial and semi-feudal social status of China. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the goals of "seeking strength" and "seeking wealth" advertised by the Westernization School failed to be realized, and the Westernization Movement was basically the same.