翻开近代中国留学史 ,晚清时期岭南出国留学生对中国近代早期中西文化交流的贡献 ,特别引人注目。首先 ,他们是中国近代出国留学的先驱者和开拓者。其次 ,他们是中国近代早期中西文化交流的重要桥梁和纽带。再次 ,他们也是肇启中国现代化进程的早期启蒙者和先导者 ,而且在一定的客观程度上 ,积极推进着中国早期现代化的启动。最后 ,他们对中国近代中西文化交流的主要贡献 ,就是起着开风气之先 ,最早吸取和引进西方先进文化 ,并把它辐射到全国去的作用 The history of studying Chinese in modern China was opened up. In the late Qing dynasty, the overseas students in Lingnan paid special attention to the contribution of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges in early modern China. First of all, they are pioneers and pioneers of studying abroad in modern China. Second, they are important bridges and ties in the early modern Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. Thirdly, they are also the early enlightening and pioneering pioneers of Zhao Kai’s modernization in China. They also actively promoted the initiation of China’s early modernization on a certain level of objectivity. In the end, their main contribution to the exchange of Chinese and Western cultures in modern China is to play the leading role in opening the atmosphere and the earliest role of absorbing and introducing the advanced Western culture and radiating it to the whole country