Later, in 1860, when foreign troops entered Peking and destroyed the Summer Palace, the necessity of learning modern technology was made more manifest than ever.
西元一八三八年，鴉片戰爭驚醒了東方的睡獅，熱愛和平、中庸之道的中國，開始領悟到船堅砲利與國防工業的重要性。