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Reform Movement and Its Historical Significance and Lessons
Historical significance

1. ideology and culture: promoted China's ideological emancipation movement, further spread democratic ideas, and made ideological preparations for the May 4th Movement. This is an enlightenment thought.

2. Economy: The bourgeois reform movement developed national capitalism economically, which conforms to the historical development trend.

3. Politically, the reformists tried to establish a bourgeois constitutional monarchy in politics, which was a preliminary attempt by the bourgeoisie to change the social system.

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1. The failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 exposed the weakness of the bourgeoisie in the Qing Dynasty and the decay and stubbornness of the ruling class.

2. In the semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China, it is simply not feasible to try to realize the independence, democracy and prosperity of the country through the top-down reform movement of the rulers.