The Westernization Movement was the first batch of modern enterprises in China, which accumulated experience, trained talents, promoted the emergence and development of national humanism in China, and opened up the road of modern history.

The Reform Movement of 1898 was a bourgeois reform movement in the history of China, which was in line with the historical development trend of China at that time and had great progressive significance. It was also a political activity of patriotism and saving the country, which inspired people's patriotic thought and national consciousness at that time and played an important role.

The Revolution of 1911 was not a complete democratic revolution. It did not completely overthrow the feudal system. Only the People's Republic of China (PRC) was established and the feudal system was completely overthrown, but the Republic of China was not established. But it made the concept of democracy and harmony deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the feudal system could never be restored.

The New Culture Movement has seriously shaken the feudal ruling ideology, people's thoughts have been liberated unprecedentedly, advanced intellectuals have been baptized by democracy and science, which has promoted the development of natural science in China, and Marxism spread in the later period has become a weapon for advanced intellectuals to transform the country and save society.

* * * The same function: make China move towards modernization and national independence. To a certain extent, it impacted the feudal forces in China and at the same time attacked the aggression of foreign imperialism.

The Westernization Movement was the beginning of modernization, which opened the road of China's modernization.

The Reform Movement of 1898 played the role of ideological enlightenment and created conditions for the emergence and spread of bourgeois ideas in China.

The Revolution of 1911 was a bourgeois revolutionary movement, and it can be said that the first two movements laid the foundation of the Revolution of 1911. At the same time, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the feudal monarchy.

The New Culture Movement is an ideological emancipation movement, which inspires people to explore the truth of saving the country and the people.

These four movements are from learning western military artifacts to political system, and then to ideological and cultural transformation.