sentences:  However, during a visit to the capital in the spring of 1889, he was reassigned as Imperial Envoy to the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Belgium.During his tenure in Europe (1890 -1894), Xue visited many European countries in order to understand the impact of industrial development and how different European political systems impacted military power, education, law and finance.He came to the conclusion that Europe was significantly in advance of China and China can only modernize by adopting Western technology and systems.