A Comparative Comment on the Industrial Roads of Zhang Jian and Zhang Zhidong

Zhang Jian and Zhang Zhidong are important figures on the political and economic stages in the late Qing Dynasty. The common about the destiny of the state and nation put them on the same road of setting up industry and business. Their industrial practice is actually a miniaturization of the development of the industry of our country. On the one hand, they reached the same goal by different routes, on the other, they had different destinies. Without their preliminary exploration, our national industry today couldn't have developed so rapidly.