The essence is: cultural colonization. The so-called "Geng education" means that the United States finally agrees to refund part of the compensation through negotiations, and the refund is mainly used to develop the education in China. The reason why the United States chose this way to return reparations is to cultivate pro-American students through Westernization education and realize their long-term control over China.

Although the real purpose of the Boxer Rebellion was not to really help the Qing government to carry out development and construction at that time, it is undeniable that the Boxer Rebellion had a far-reaching impact on modern education in China, and this huge investment in education objectively promoted the modernization of education in China.

Characteristics of Geng Academic Promotion Fund:

19 1 1 year, the Qing government set up Tsinghua School (the predecessor of Tsinghua University) with boxer indemnity returned by the United States as a preparatory school for studying abroad, where students received strict training and passed the examination before further study.

Since then, Shanxi University has been established with this Boxer Refund. At the same time, Americans built 12 missionary universities in China, including yenching university, which is famous at home and abroad. The establishment of these schools has greatly improved the running level of higher education in China and trained a large number of elite talents in the social and economic fields in China.