The government began to send students abroad to study military strategy and logistics; it also hired foreign advisors to build factories and to construct battleships and other armaments. The Chung Cheng Institute of Technology is a direct descendant of those earlier efforts to give China a defense industry.
當時滿清政府一方面派遣留學生出國學習軍事與武器製造，一方面聘請外國顧問來華協助設廠製造船、砲和軍火，我國的國防工業從此開始發展。