洋务运动,从它主线上说,是近代中国最大的一次带有改革色彩的经济运动。它以创办近代机器大工业工厂为主要内容,而成为十九世纪世界近代工业化潮流的一个组成部分,把中国落后的生产力艰难地拖入了资本主义机器大工业生产的轨道。这是它的功绩所在。但,它最终没能使中国完全顺应世界近代工业化潮流前进。我古老的民族失去了一次在经济上腾飞乃至政治上腾飞的机会。这不能不说是我们民族的不幸。我反对那种对洋务运动的惨败结局作近乎宿命论式的非难。我们有理由从经济规律本身出发,从我 The Westernization Movement, on its main line, is the largest economic movement with reforms in modern China. It started with the establishment of the modern industrial machinery factory as its main content and became part of the modern industrialized world in the 19th century. It dragged China’s backward productive forces onto the track of capitalist industrial production. This is its merit. However, it ultimately failed to fully comply with the trend of modern industrialized nations in the world. My ancient people lost an opportunity to take off economically and even take off politically. This can not but say the unfortunateness of our nation. I oppose the sort of near-fatal argument that the fiasco against the Westernization Movement ended in fiasco. We have reason to proceed from the economic laws themselves, from me