Research On Zheng Guanying's Viewpoints Of Science And Technology

Zheng Guanying is an early reform ideologist in China,a pioneer in opening up the prelude to democracy and science in modern history,In order to achieve the ideal of saving the nation from danger and making China "prosperous and strong",he had always been committed to the enlightenment and development of modern Chinese science and technology through his rich industrial experience.He was diligent and concerned about world affairs,and he was still dedicated to the career of science and technology in China,even the dying of his life.The predicament of the Qing government's political difficulties and the dissemination of the western culture,arousing the awakening consciousness of Zheng Guanying.The common cultivation of Chinese culture and Western culture and training for industrial and commercial practice,all of these encouraging Zheng to explore the way of salvation.Zheng Guanying has formed distinctive ideological content in different fields.Zheng Guanying advocates the development of manufacture;attach importance to the cultivation of scientific and technological talents and the establishment of new schools;and put forward the establishment of practical learning and the abolition of eight strands.By probing into the important reasons for the backwardness of science and technology in modern China,he formed his thought of science and Technology Education.Zheng Guanying have a more comprehensive understanding of the characteristics,conditions,time limit,the process of applying for patent,the establishment of a patent institution,effective patent,and invalid patent of technology patents.He has a profound understanding of the function of technology patents,and turn the idea of technology patents into ten years' patent right for weaving process—the idea of his patent for science and technology has been formed.He pursued the leading scientific and technological achievements of ancient China from optics,electricity,and mechanics in the field of Chinese and Western studies;explored the theoretical basis of the source of Western studies;and innovatively put forward the idea of integrating Western and Chinese sources of source and reality.It is not only reduce the resistance to the spread of Western learning at that time,but also deepening the understanding of intellectuals in the Qing Dynasty to western advanced science and technology.Zheng Guanying's scientific and technological thinking has its own characteristics,significance and limitations.Zheng Guanying's scientific and technological thinking shows the characteristics of the combination of scientific and technological thinking,scientific and technological practice,the combination of scientific and technological thought,and political thought.Zheng Guanying's scientific and technological ideas have promoted the enlightenment of modern science and technology.His open and inclusive attitude has promoted the exchange of science and technology between China and the West.He promoted a series of specific ideas such as the development of science and technology education and the development of education modernization in modern China.The historical predicament of the Qing Dynasty and Zheng Guanying's life course,making him become a technology expert who is interested in broad but not specific.His ideas of science and technology have not been completely free from traditional constraints.