中华民族争取现代化的努力已持续了一百多年。当近代中国的第一轮国家工业化运动——清政府领导的自强运动被一百年前的甲午战争和马关条约摧毁以后，当救亡图存旗帜下的近代第一次改革运动——戊戌变法被血腥镇压以后，中国人是在八国联军攻占北京的千古奇变中走进本世纪的。 The efforts of the Chinese nation to strive for modernization have lasted for more than 100 years. After the first round of national industrialization movement in modern China, the self-improvement movement under the leadership of the Qing government, was destroyed by the Sino-Japanese War and the Treaty of Shimonoseki hundred years ago, when the first reformist movement in modern China under the flag of saving nationality was made bloody After the crackdown, the Chinese people walked into this century in the midst of the vicissitudes of the eight-nation coalition forces that captured Beijing.