The Qing court's attitude towards new things was always to accept what they could control and destroy what they could not, hence their industrialization was very abstract.
You say the Qing court had no industry, yet factories were everywhere along the coastal areas; you say the Qing court had industry, but those factories were just foreign skin with local bones.
Compared to neighboring Japan's industrialization, which was promoted from top to bottom. The Returned Overseas were reused as soon as they returned to the country, allowing them to contribute to the nation's industrialization.
The Qing court's students studying abroad were not reused, as the Imperial Court was very afraid that their hearts had changed after going out, so they dreaded their new ideas.
