In order to achieve industrialization, a nation must have corresponding technical forces, including a certain number of qualified scientific researchers, engineering technicians, and skilled workers. However, when industrialization is initiated, the existing technical forces are always insufficient. There is a wide gap between the need for industrialization and a lack of existing technical forces. What measures had some Western capitalist countries taken to promote the formation of technical forces in the process of industrialization? What can we learn from their experiences? This is the main topic of this article.