魏源在近代中国社会急剧转型时期提出了系统而具体的改革思想。他用中国传统的历史变异观雄辩地证明了改革的必然性,强调审时度势的改革策略,坚持利国利民的改革宗旨,并把培养人才作为改革成功的关键。难能可贵的是,他与时俱进,对中国的改革方向作了具有资本主义倾向的整体设计。尽管魏源的改革思想有其局限性,但解放了人们的思想,在实践中也卓有成效,对我们今天的改革开放事业亦不乏借鉴意义。 Wei Yuan put forward systematic and specific reform ideas in the period of rapid social transformation in modern China. He eloquently proofed the inevitability of the reform with the traditional Chinese view of historical variability, emphasized the reform strategy of assessing the situation and insisted on the purpose of reform for the benefit of the country and the people, and took the training of personnel as the key to the success of the reform. It is commendable that he kept pace with the times and made an overall design with a capitalist tendencies toward the direction of China’s reform. Although Wei Yuan’s reform thinking has its limitations, the liberation of people’s thinking has also proved fruitful in practice and there is no lack of reference to our cause of reform and opening up.