李鸿章与中国海军近代化

Li Hong-zhang's Role in the Modern Chinese Navy

李鸿章是中国海军近代化的积极倡导者和实践者。在近代海军的创设筹备阶段:他力排众议,积极组织筹划;在具体创办阶段:他按照防守型海军到积极防御型海军两个阶段依次建设;在培养和训练海军人才方面:他建立各种军事学堂并派遣留学生。在中国海军近代化史上,李鸿章起了非常重大的作用,也为今天我国海军国防建设提供了借鉴。

Li Hong -zhang was an active advocator and practitioner of earlier modernization of Chinese navy. In the planning stage, he refused all the other different views and actively prepared for its establishment. In the course, he constructed it from defensive type to active defensive one. Besides, he set up various military schools and sent students abroad in order to train the navy talents. In the history of earlier modemization of Chinese navy, Li Hong - zhang played an extremely important role, and what he did is also a reference for the development of Chinese navy today.