What is the proposition of Westernization Movement?

The westernization school's concept of saving the country is "learning from foreigners and constantly striving for self-improvement". The Westernization Movement is a series of activities carried out by the Westernization School under the slogan of "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth". Mainly using western advanced technology, a number of modern military and civilian industries were established, and activities such as planning coastal defense, setting up new schools and sending overseas students were carried out, which was also the concrete embodiment of Westernization School's proposition in economy, military affairs and education. The content of Westernization Movement is very complicated, involving military affairs, politics, economy and diplomacy. , and the main content is to set up military enterprises and other enterprises around the military industry in the name of "self-improvement" to establish Lu Haijun with new weapons and equipment.

When the Westernization School set up modern industrial enterprises and organized coastal defense in China, it had to be controlled and restrained by imperialism in industrial technology, capital and even management. Therefore, it is inevitable to deepen imperialist control over China's politics, military affairs and economy to some extent. The fundamental purpose of the Westernization Movement was to save the Qing Dynasty and maintain the rule of the landlord class. However, the facts did not develop as they expected. China's fiasco in the Sino-Japanese War directly marked the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement. The Westernization Movement did not make China rich and strong. However, a group of modern talents trained by Westernization School learned the advanced western bourgeois ideas and spread them further in China, which not only impacted the traditional feudal ideas, but also laid the ideological foundation for the later bourgeois activities in China.