Content:
1. Under the banner of "self-improvement", we will introduce advanced western production technology, establish a new military industry, cultivate new naval forces, and build a modern navy such as Beiyang Navy.
2. Under the banner of "seeking wealth", establish various new civilian industries such as ships, railways, telegrams, mining and textiles.
3. Establish new schools, send overseas students abroad for further study, and train translators, military personnel and scientific and technological personnel.
Representative figures: Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Prince Gong, who is in power in the central government? Waiting for someone.
Nature: The Westernization Movement is 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 is progressive, backward and conservative.
Extended data:
Positive impact:
1. The Westernization Movement promoted the development of modern productive forces in China and the emergence of Chinese national capitalism.
2. The Westernization School resisted the economic input of foreign capitalism to a certain extent;
3. Westernization Movement opened the gap of feudal education system;
The Westernization Movement promoted the modernization of national defense.
Historical limitations:
Although the Westernization School flaunts itself as a "new policy of self-improvement", because they are all guardians of feudal traditional thoughts, they have no intention of learning the capitalist political and economic system at all, only advocate learning western technology, and strongly oppose any form of reform of feudal thoughts and systems.
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