晚清同光年间,基于海防备虚和对西方船坚炮利的认识,清政府曾大力筹款,购船造舰,兴办近代海军。晚清筹办海军是中国军事近代化的一项重要内容,也是在中国沦入半封建半殖民地社会过程中清王朝新建的一支重要武装力量,标志着当时国防战略转变的开始,具有抗敌御侮,捍卫国家主权的性质。因此,尽管当时财政状况十分竭蹶,化费的巨额款项 In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government made great efforts to fund-raising, purchasing ships and building ships and setting up the modern navy based on the knowledge that a defensive preparations were made for seafaring forces and awareness of Western gunboats. The preparation of the navy in the late Qing Dynasty is an important part of China’s military modernization and also an important new armed force newly built by the Qing Dynasty in the process of China’s demise of semi-colonial and semi-colonial society, marking the beginning of the transformation of the national defense strategy at that time, Defend the nature of state sovereignty. Therefore, despite the drastic financial situation at that time, a huge sum of money was spent