At that time, learning from the west was a feasible way. Due to the dominant feudal rule, China people's learning from the West is only the beginning. Therefore, in a world full of feudal old culture, it is necessary to accommodate some new cultures. It is impossible to settle down in China without the premise of Chinese style and the support of western use. At that time, the die-hards were extremely powerful, "talking about westernization. If a scholar talks about western art, he will be denounced as a sinner by name and a scum of literati "(Zheng: Threatening Words in a Prosperous Age, Volume I of Western Learning). In order to successfully run the Westernization in China, the Westernization School held high the banner of "learning from China and using the West", claiming that they introduced western learning not to change the basic things in China culture, but to make foreign things serve China, emphasizing middle school as the body, thus blocking the die-hards' attack of changing foreign things into summer, and enabling western learning to settle down in China. At that time, China scholar-officials didn't understand the learning of chapters and sentences, and strongly opposed western learning. Westernization theorists took the lead in promoting western learning, founded Wentong Museum and various Westernization schools, sent overseas students and translated western books on a large scale, which fully demonstrated the innovative significance of "using western learning".

Although the concept of "learning from the West" did not make China prosperous, it introduced advanced technology from the West and made the first batch of modern enterprises appear in China. This thought accumulated production experience for modern enterprises in China, cultivated technical strength, objectively promoted the emergence and development of Chinese national capitalism, and opened the way for China's modernization.