郑观应不是职业外交家,而是作为洋务实业活动家和维新改革思想家闻名于世。他贯通中西,一直参与洋务和与外人打交道的实践活动,这就孕育了他日后培植国力的外交思想,他在这方面的许多理论和主张,对近代中国外交的起步和形成发挥过重要作用。 Zheng Guan should not be a professional diplomat, but is known as a foreign affairs activist and reformist thinker. He runs through both China and the West and has been involved in the practice of dealing with foreign affairs and dealing with foreigners. This has given birth to his diplomatic thinking of cultivating national power in the future. Many of his theories and propositions in this regard have played an important role in the initiation and formation of modern Chinese diplomacy.