First of all, clarify your question. The education of studying abroad in the late Qing Dynasty should refer to the official study abroad in the late Qing Dynasty. In fact, the Westernization Movement period can also be regarded as the late Qing Dynasty, but it was decades earlier than the official study abroad. There is no official mission to study abroad in the Westernization Movement, but "Promoting Western Learning to Run Westernization" has set up some new schools and some modern industries in China, mainly military industries. Some people go abroad to study, mainly in Japan, but few in Europe and America.

Therefore, the similarities and differences between these two kinds of overseas education are obvious. One is official learning, the other is the independent behavior of the people. One is to go directly to the most developed United States, and the other is to choose to go to neighboring Japan to learn second-hand knowledge; One representative is Zhan Tianyou and the other is Wei Yuan. What they have in common is that they brought western scientific knowledge to China, which broadened the horizons of China people and promoted the modernization of China society.