In order to cultivate talents familiar with Westernization, the Westernization Movement opened a number of new schools, sent the earliest official students and translated a number of western books, which brought new knowledge to China at that time, opened people's eyes and became the beginning of modern education in China.

Westernization movement, also known as self-improvement movement. It was a self-help movement of the Westernization School in the late Qing Dynasty from 1960s to 1990s, using western military equipment, machine production and science and technology under the slogan of "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth". The fundamental purpose of Westernization Movement is to maintain the rule of Qing Dynasty.

186 1 year 1 month1day, Aisingiorro Yixin, together with Gui Liang and Wen Xiang, launched the "Six Rules for Coordinating Foreign Affairs" and launched the Westernization Movement with the goal of making Qiang Bing rich. 186 1 After the coup, Cixi started to use the Westernization School, introduced advanced western science and technology on a large scale, and set up modern military industry and civilian enterprises. In the Sino-Japanese War 1895, the Beiyang Navy was completely annihilated, marking the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement that lasted for more than 30 years.

International background

Since15th century, the world environment has changed. Western capitalism began to sprout. After long-term labor and accumulated experience, farmers and craftsmen improved their production tools and developed agriculture. Machines began to appear in the textile and metallurgical industries. Not only improves the output. It has changed the relationship between people and divided different classes.

Driven by the opening of new sea routes, the Renaissance, the Religious Reform Movement, the bourgeois revolution and the industrial revolution, by the time of the Westernization Movement, the capitalist world system had been initially completed, and mankind had entered a new era, which was also the necessity of historical development.