1, "saving the country by industry" as an ideological tendency can be traced back to the Opium War at the earliest. Wei Yuan, a patriotic thinker, rose up in anger and compiled the Atlas of Sea Countries, putting forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners" and emphasizing learning advanced science and technology from the West to resist foreign aggression.
Since then, it has always existed as a social trend of thought in the late19th century and occupied an important position in many social reform programs in modern China.
2. 19 The thought of Westernization Movement, which began in 1960s, directly came from this thought. The goal of our efforts is to develop modern large-scale machinery industry by learning advanced western technology, so as to achieve the goal of enriching Qiang Bing.
3. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the national crisis in China was unprecedented. National capitalists and patriots have invested and set up factories one after another, and practiced the idea of "saving the country through industry" with practical actions.
4. During the Revolution of 1911, newspapers and periodicals all over the country competed to publicize "saving the country through industry", put forward five "avenues" for the country to revitalize industry, and formed a relatively complete theory of "saving the country through industry".
5. Before and after the May 4th Movement, the theory of "saving the country by industry" prevailed. National capitalists vigorously advocate domestic products, resist foreign economic plunder and safeguard national interests.
6. After the May 4th Movement, "saving the country by industry" still has its aftermath. There are still some representatives of the bourgeoisie who advocate the theory of saving the country by industry, and some who oppose the China Revolution led by the proletariat, but most of them show the illusion that the national bourgeoisie tries to develop capitalist production under semi-colonial and semi-feudal social conditions.