The Historical Role of Westernization Movement

Westernization movement, also known as self-help movement and self-improvement movement. It was a self-help movement by the Westernization School in the late Qing Dynasty to introduce western military equipment, machine production and science and technology to save the Qing Dynasty from the 1960s to the 1990s.

The Westernization Movement promoted the development of productive forces in modern China and the emergence of Chinese national capitalism. Westernization school resisted the economic input of foreign capitalism to a certain extent; Westernization movement opened the gap of feudal education system; The Westernization Movement promoted the modernization of national defense.

The Westernization Movement objectively promoted the development of China's productive forces, promoted the emergence and development of Chinese national capitalism, resisted the economic input of foreign capitalism to a certain extent, and promoted the modernization of China's education and national defense.

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In the Westernization Movement, the central representative of the Westernization School is Prince Gong, and the local representatives are Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Zeng Guofan, Zuo and other Hunan-Huai groups, as well as Chonghou, Shen Baozhen, Liu Kunyi, Tang and Zhang Jian.

They advocate learning from western sounds, light, electricity, culture, ships, trains, machines, guns, newspapers and schools, under the banner of "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth". People think that if China wants to be rich and strong, it must learn from the natural science and even social politics of the western bourgeoisie. Therefore, we advocate the development of "western learning", the promotion of "westernization", the establishment of military factories, the production of new weapons, and the establishment of a new army in order to achieve the goal of "self-improvement."

In order to solve the problems of raw materials, capital and transportation of military industry, and then vigorously set up civil industry, mining industry and transportation industry, in order to achieve the purpose of seeking wealth and resisting foreign capitalist aggression and expansion.

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