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February 14 - Nie Er, Chinese musician (died 1935) June 27 - Chen Kenmin, Chinese-born Japanese chef (died 1990) July 26 - Qigong, Chinese calligrapher, artist, painter, connoisseur and sinologist (died 2005) October 27 - C. C. Li, Chinese-American geneticist (died 2003) November 14 - Tung-Yen Lin, Chinese structural engineer (died 2003)
Zhan Tianyou, or Tien-Yow Jeme [1] (Chinese: 詹天佑; 26 April 1861 – 24 April 1919), was a pioneering Chinese railroad engineer.Educated in the United States, he was the chief engineer responsible for construction of the Peking-Kalgan Railway (Beijing to Zhangjiakou), the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance.
The railway formally opened in 1909, with a total length of 201.2 km (125.0 mi). Starting from Liucun Village in Fengtai, it connected Beijing to Zhangjiakou via the Guan’gou Valley with 14 stations, 4 tunnels and 125 bridges. In 1912, four stations with passing loops were built in the Guan’gou section.
Edward H. Harriman – President of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific, and directed the unification of both railroads; James J. Hill – Founder of the Great Northern Railway, builder of first transcontinental railroad without federal subsidies or land grants; Cyrus K. Holliday – Founder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The China Railway logo was designed by Chen Yuchang (Chinese: 陈玉昶) (1912–1969), officially adopted on 22 January 1950. The whole logo represents the front of a locomotive. The upper part of the logo represents the Chinese character 人 (people), while the lower part represents the transversal surface of a rail.
The Faux Namti Bridge on the Yunnan–Vietnam Railway was built by France in 1906. A train on South Manchuria Railway. Qing China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War greatly stimulated the railway development as the government both recognized the importance of modernization and was compelled by foreign powers to grant concessions to build railways along with settlement and mineral rights.
The first steam locomotive in China is thought to be a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge 0-4-0T engine used on the Shanghai-Wusong railway.Towards the end of the 19th century concessions obtained from the Qing dynasty enabled foreign powers (Germany, Russia, France and Great Britain) to build railways in China, and they introduced a variety of foreign-built machines.
The opening of the short-lived Woosung Road, the first railway in China, between Shanghai and Wusong in 1876. The first recorded railway track to be laid in China was a 600-metre (1,969 ft) long miniature gauge demonstration line that a British merchant assembled outside the Xuanwumen city gate at Beijing in 1865 to demonstrate rail technology. [14]