李鸿章的“自强”思想的形成和发展有一个逐步演进的过程,从19世纪60年代到90年代他都一直致力于“自强”思想的实践。李鸿章“自强”思想的内涵包括军事自强、经济自强、文化自强三个方面的内容。我们要全面、客观的评价李鸿章的“自强”思想及其实践,既要充分的肯定其积极作用,也要看到其消极作用和历史的局限性。 Li Hongzhang’s “self-reliance” has a gradual process of its formation and development. From the 1960s to the 1990s, he devoted himself to the practice of “self-strengthening” thinking. The connotations of Li Hongzhang’s thinking on “self-reliance” include the contents of three areas: military self-reliance, economic self-reliance and cultural self-reliance. We must comprehensively and objectively evaluate Li’s “self-reliance” thinking and its practice. We must fully affirm its positive role as well as its negative role and historical limitations.