The original intention of the governors-generals and governors who jointly submitted the memorials appealing for the immediate abolishment of the traditional imperial civil service examinations was not to abolish the system in its entirety. Rather, they sought to merge the imperial examinations with the new educational system in oder to integrate the training and the selection of future official. But it proved difficult to continue to emphasize the teaching of Chinese traditional learning while simultaneously pursuing Western learning, not to mention various forms of specialized training. Policy debates and discussions started before the reform of imperial examinations, but the reforms failed to solve the problems that stemmed from the exams and employment of officials in the last years of the Qing dynasty. A deeply rooted dilemma remained the problem of how to keep and enhance the Chinese cultural tradition while importing and learning Western culture, and the related problem of how to adjust and reconstruct values and the moral system during this period of deep turmoil in modern China.