The Foochow Arsenal And Modernization Of Chinese Navy Between 1866-1907

As the latter Qing dynasty military education and military industry's aggregate, the Foochow Arsenal is not only the Chinese military personnel training base at that time,is also the Chinese modern warship manufacturing firm. It is called the first true military academies in the Chinese modern, also concentrately reflects related military technology level of Chinese navy at that time. This article mainly take two main missions of the Foochow Arsenal as a core and take its two main mission's development process as the clue, explores reciprocity among the Foochow Arsenal and the Chinese modern navy personnel training, the modern navy military training and the naval armament modernizing. The Foochow Arsenal is rich in the actual effect the formalization development,without doubt benefits from its special time background. Under such development, the Qing government accelerated to advance the pace of military technology exchange, the military personnel training, and the military training reform the latter Qing dynasty , which promoted the whole process of Chinese Naval modernization. But the Foochow Arsenal in the so difficult circumstances can make the great contribution to armament modernization of Chinese navy and achieve the prominent achievement in the military talented person's raise, from which has noticeable profits for the contemporary our army new military transforms, the defense-related science and technology and the military talented person development and so on.