What are the nature, limitations and progress of the historical Westernization Movement?

The nature of the Westernization Movement: the self-help movement of the landlord class-the Westernization Movement for the purpose of asking for wealth from itself, which was carried out from top to bottom, was aimed at getting rid of the internal troubles and foreign invasion faced by the Qing government in the middle of the19th century.

Limitations: only introduce technology, not reform the system. The Westernization Movement, which took China culture as its aim and adopted the most advanced technology and equipment, aimed at maintaining the feudal autocratic rule of the Qing government and grafting new productive forces on backward production relations, which had certain limitations under the trend of the capitalist world at that time.

The beginning of China's modernization. Regardless of the subjective purpose, the Westernization Movement, after all, introduced technology, trained talents, induced the emergence of national industries, and resisted the aggression of foreign capitalism to some extent.