官督商办,是洋务派举办近代民用企业时采用的主要经营方式。对这种经营方式,论者臧否不一,而多数持否定态度,——认为它是洋务派利用私人资本,以控制、垄断新式机器工交业的手段;采行的结果,是阻滞了民族资本的正常发生与发展。这种看法失之偏颇;至少,用以评价官督商办方式在民族近代企业发生时期(甲午战争以前)的作用是不合适的。客观地考察这一经营方式采行的特定历史背景及其在甲午战前的实际 Officials and merchants do business, is the main mode of operation used by the Westernization Group to organize modern civilian enterprises. Whether this type of mode of operation is different or not depends on the majority, but most of them hold a negative attitude - thinking that it is a means by which the Westernizationists use private capital to control and monopolize the new machine-tool industry. As a result, The normal occurrence and development of capital. This view is biased; at least, it is not appropriate to evaluate the role of the government in charge of merchanting in the modern enterprise of the nation (before the Sino-Japanese War). Objectively examine the specific historical background adopted by this mode of operation and its actual situation before the Sino-Japanese War