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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 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]
The railway is to follow a 387 km (240 mi) route from Xili railway station to Maoming East railway station.The existing Xinhui branch [7] of the Guangzhou–Zhuhai intercity railway will be included as a central link, with 265 km (165 mi) of new trackage extending west to Maoming and then a new tunnel across the Pearl River Delta from Shenzhen south of the Humen Pearl River Bridge.
The construction of the railway was part of the China Western Development strategy, an attempt to develop the western provinces of China, which are much less developed than eastern China. The railway will be extended to Zhangmu via Shigatse ( 日喀则 ) to the west, and Dali via Nyingchi ( 林芝 ) to the east.
In order to fund the railway, Chin raised $2.75 million, mainly from overseas Chinese; some sources [7] say that further investment came from James J. Hill, but others say that at a time when railway development in China was dominated by European nations, [8] he "vowed not to sell shares to foreigners, to borrow money from them, or to use their engineers". [2]
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial view shows the collapsed ground at a construction site on a section of the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong ...
Fala Spiral of Chengdu–Kunming railway A memorial for workers who lost their lives in the construction of the railway in Jianshui County.. The Chengdu–Kunming railway or Chengkun railway (simplified Chinese: 成昆铁路; traditional Chinese: 成昆鐵路; pinyin: chéngkūn tiělù), is a major trunkline railroad in southwestern China between Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province and ...
The Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway (or Jinghu high-speed railway) is a high-speed railway that connects two major economic zones in the People's Republic of China: the Bohai Economic Rim and the Yangtze River Delta. [3] Construction began on April 18, 2008, [4] with the line opened to the public for commercial service on June 30, 2011. [5]