Steam engine is an important mechanical invention in the industrial revolution. With the Western Learning, steam engine is gradually introduced to China. The first book who introduced the principle of the steam engine is the Eastern Western Monthly Magazine which is edited by Guo Shila. After then a number of books of the steam engine have appeared in China. Ding Gongchen also made ​​a steam engine model. Xu Shou made ​​the first steam engine of China in 1862. It encountered many difficulties in the process of steam engine was introduced into China, including the lack of engineering and technical personnel and the machines tools. The officials of Qing government addressed these problems through the purchase of Western equipment and the hiring of foreign technicians for technical training of workers. Since then, with the deepening of the Westernization Movement, the technology of steam engine was gradually spread in China.