Please talk about the progressive significance of the Westernization Movement.

(1) Westernization enterprises adopt western technology and equipment for production and belong to modern enterprises.

(2) The military industry founded by the Westernization School in the early stage was funded by the Qing government, and the products were distributed to the army. The management mode is feudal yamen. Although these enterprises used machine production, they were essentially feudal official enterprise with capitalist factors.

(3) The civil industries founded by the Westernization School in the later period mostly took the form of official supervision, commercial operation and joint venture between officials and businessmen. The products are mainly put on the market as commodities, and the management adopts the labor employment system, so it is essentially a capitalist enterprise with feudal factors.

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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, which made important contributions to national defense.

The establishment of Beiyang Navy is one of the highest military achievements of Westernization Movement. Although the Beiyang Navy failed in the end, it was once an advanced military force in China that could deter the ocean, occupying a place in the history of the world navy, and in the process of cultivating the Beiyang Navy, it also promoted the development of a series of modern undertakings.