What ideas does the Westernization Movement advocate?

The most fundamental guiding ideology of Westernization Movement is "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth". Its classification ideas are "learning from foreigners to control foreigners" and "learning from China and using the West".

"Learning from foreigners to control foreigners" shows the relationship between the Westernization Movement and foreign capitalist invaders, that is, learning western skills to resist western aggression; "Chinese style and western use" shows the relationship between the Westernization Movement and China's traditional feudal culture, and shows the respective positions of middle school and western learning in the Westernization Movement, that is, middle school is the mainstay and western learning is the supplement.

The Westernization Movement began with military self-improvement. In order to achieve military self-improvement, the Westernization School mainly focuses on three aspects: first, establishing a modern military industry; The second is to establish a modern coastal defense navy and improve the weapons, equipment and training of the army; The third is to establish a modern military academy and cultivate new talents in Lu Haijun.

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In the early days of the Westernization Movement, the Westernization School established a number of modern military industries under the banner of "self-improvement" and adopted advanced western production technologies. Under the auspices of Li Hongzhang and others, a number of large-scale modern military industries such as Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, Fuzhou Shipping Bureau and Tianjin Machinery Bureau came out one after another.

In just a few years, China has possessed the production capacity of various military products such as cast iron, steelmaking and machinery, including new weapons such as cannons, firearms, ammunition, mines and ships, and equipped some troops. They also set up a number of military schools, such as Tianjin Beiyang Naval Academy, Guangzhou Torpedo Academy, Weihai Naval Academy, Nanyang Naval Academy, Lushun Torpedo Academy, Jiangnan Army Academy and Shanghai Artillery Training School.

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