The history of China Railway for more than 100 years is dazzling. How is it known bit by bit?

China Railway started in the declining period of Qing government, which was more than half a century later than the first country in the world to use railway. So far, the history of China Railway is only over 100 years.

1, China Railway was first known, not for its glory, but for its early death.

In the Qing dynasty, railways were regarded by the Qing people as destroying feng shui? Weird skills and cunning At that time, people were superstitious and thought that building railways and excavating land on a large scale would destroy Feng Shui. The ruling class also strongly opposes it. They thought that building a railway would ruin Long Mai in the Qing Dynasty. In the second year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1876), the British built a railway in Shanghai, which was a narrow-gauge light rail from Zhabei to Wusongkou in Shanghai, with a length of 14.5 km. This railway is called Wusong Railway, which is the first railway in China. However, it was redeemed and demolished by the Qing government the following year. The history of early railways in China is full of twists and turns.

2. China Railway is widely known in Zhan Tianyou.

There was a great railway expert in China in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhan Tianyou. Did he? Father of China Railway? 、? Father of modern engineering in China? Known as. At 1905? 1909 he presided over the construction of the first railway independently designed and built in China? Beijing-zhangjia railway. Jing-Zhang Railway is the first railway designed and put into operation by China people themselves. The railway starts from Liucun, Fengtai, Beijing and passes through Juyongguan, Badaling, Shacheng, Xuanhua and Zhangjiakou, with a total length of 201.2km..

3. China's high-speed rail leads the world.

In August 2008 1, China independently built the first high-speed railway with a top speed of 350km/h? Beijing-Tianjin Intercity opened for operation, and China officially entered the era of high-speed rail. In the past ten years, from the coast of the Bohai Sea to the Gobi in the west, from the central plain to the southwest mountainous area, from the snowy area in the northeast to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, China high-speed rail has been built from scratch, beaded into a line and connected into a network, and a modern railway has been built, carrying more than 7 billion passengers. ?