What is the slogan of the movement of learning from foreigners to control foreigners?

"Learning from foreigners" is a famous proposition put forward by Wei Yuan in his book Atlas of Sea Countries. "Self-enrichment" is the slogan of the Westernization Movement. Self-improvement was the slogan of the Westernization School when it founded military enterprises in the early 1960s, aiming at enhancing national strength, especially military strength. Seeking wealth was put forward in the middle and late 1970s when military enterprises were faced with problems such as fuel funds.

1842 "Atlas of the Ocean" came out, and the author Wei Yuan pointed out the purpose of writing this book in the book "The Original Narration": "What is the book for? It is said that "foreigners attack foreigners, foreigners pay for it, foreigners learn it, and foreigners make it." "The so-called' learning from foreigners' mainly refers to learning a set of strengths of western capitalist countries in military technology, while' foreigners' skills are three: one warship, two firearms and three training methods'." "Wei Yuan not only advocates buying naval guns from the west, but also emphasizes introducing advanced industrial technology from the west and manufacturing naval guns by itself. The so-called "controlling foreigners" means resisting aggression and defeating the enemy. In this proposition, learning from foreigners is the means and controlling foreigners is the purpose. Through the proposition of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", Wei Yuan definitely raised whether to learn the "skills" of western countries to the height of defeating foreign invaders.

This thought shows brilliant patriotism, and puts forward a new task of "learning from the West" to the people of China who are undergoing great changes. This thought later became the ideological source of learning from the West and occupied a very important position in the history of China's modern thought. In a practical sense, it is the pioneer of Westernization Movement, even the pioneer of Reform and Revolution of 1911.