188 1 graduated from undergraduate course and returned to China in the same year. After returning to China, he once taught in Fuzhou Shipping Bureau Post School and Guangdong Boxue Hall (1886 changed to Guangdong Ocean Normal School).
1888 was hired as a road construction engineer of Tangjin Railway and started to engage in railway construction. Later, he worked in more than ten railways such as Guannei, Pingyi, Xinyi, Chaoshan, Daoqing, Zhangjing, Luotong, Jinpu, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo, Shanghai-Nanjing, Chuanhan, Yuehan and Hanyue-Chuan. 1in the spring of 903, the first Xinyi railway designed and built by China people was completed, and the Qing government awarded Zhan Tianyou the title of platform.
From 1905 to 1909, he designed and presided over the construction of China's first trunk railway-Jing-Zhang Railway. The construction of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is entirely undertaken by China. It was opened to traffic two years ahead of schedule, and the cost of road construction was only two-seventh of that estimated by foreigners.
Zhan Tianyou devoted himself to his duties and loved his motherland all his life. He opposed the Qing government's sale of road rights. Oppose foreign invaders to discriminate against China engineers. He enthusiastically supported the road protection movement. He not only actively introduced foreign science and technology, but also firmly believed in the creativity of our people. He called on China engineers to "learn what they have learned and know what they know, so that the country will not be invaded by foreign countries and stand on its own feet on the earth."
In his hometown, he has made many achievements for the people of Guangdong. He drew the situation along the coast of Guangdong, which is the first sea chart in China; He carefully inspected the railway from Chaozhou to Shantou; He actively led the construction of the Guangdong-Han railway from Guangzhou to Shaoguan; 19 14 was elected as the president of Hankou disaster relief association for floods in eastern Guangdong, and made many donations to floods in eastern Guangdong, Guangdong Hospital in China and Guangdong Public School.
19 19, 1 In June, he attended the international conference on joint supervision of the Far East Railway as a representative of the Japanese government, at which he tried his best to safeguard China's sovereignty and foiled the plot of the United States and China to seize the northern section of the Middle East Road. Because of overwork, abdominal disease recurred, he went back to Hankou for medical treatment and died.
Zhan Tianyou devoted his life to the railway industry in China. Zhou Enlai praised him as "the glory of the people of China". Now, the statue of Zhan Tianyou and the tomb of Zhan Tianyou have been rebuilt at Qinglongqiao Station of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, and the Zhan Tianyou Memorial Hall has been built next to Badaling Ancient Great Wall.
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In the eighth year of the Republic of China (19 19), Zhan Tianyou ordered the Hunan-Hubei Bureau to submit a survey report on the route south of Changsha. Zhan Tianyou telephoned the representative of China at the Paris Peace Conference to oppose the international regulation of China railway. He was appointed to represent China at the International Conference on Joint Supervision of Far East Railway. In February, I went to Vladivostok and Harbin to attend meetings.
During the meeting, I braved the cold to attend the meeting and studied documents and bills at night. I'm afraid my sovereignty will be damaged. With high international prestige, I cooperated with the representatives of China who attended the meeting, and obtained the right to guard the China army along Zhongdong Road, which prevented the powers from taking Zhongdong Road by force in the name of protecting the road. And got a job as an engineer in China, Zhongdong Road. Because of fatigue, exhaustion and recurrence of old abdominal diseases, I had to ask for leave to see a doctor.
1965438+Arrived in Hankou on April 20th, 2009, and was admitted to Yan Chai Hospital on April 20th, 2 1. On the 24th, he died of heart failure due to serious abdominal diseases, at the age of 58.
The dying will is not personal as it is, and three things are stated to the country:
First, encourage and carry forward the activities of the Institute of Engineers to rejuvenate the country and enrich the people;
Second, carefully select talents to manage Russia in order to carry forward national glory;
Third, do what you can, do what you can, and build the whole road of Han, Vietnam and Sichuan in a down-to-earth manner.
He also said that the above three things are the inexhaustible blood of God. If adopted by the state, God bless will die, but it will be a year of hesitation.
After Zhan Tianyou's death, public sacrifices were held in Beijing, Hankou, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Tianjin, and the Far East Railway Conference paid tribute. More than 500 people, including the China Institution of Engineers headed by Mou, the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway Association headed by Ding Shiyuan, and the Hunan-Hubei Railway Engineering Bureau of Hanyuechuan Railway headed by Yan Deqing, signed a letter to present Zhan Tianyou's life story, saying that "it is a pity to take advantage of peerless glory".
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