Zhan Tianyou, you presided over the construction of the first people's railway in China. Being an outstanding patriotic engineer in China and being called "the father of Chinese railways" is remarkable. I really admire you! At that time, the Qing government appointed you as the chief engineer to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. The imperialists laughed at the Qing government and the impossibility of building the railway. Some foreign newspapers even said that "China engineers who can build the railway in northern South China have not yet been born". However, in the face of such a task that even famous foreign architects can't complete, and in the face of the ridicule of imperialists, you didn't flinch, but resolutely accepted the task.

Zhan Tianyou (1861April 26, 2009-1965438+April 24, 2009), whose real name is as soon as possible, is Dachao, an expert in modern railway engineering in China. Han nationality, originally from Wuyuan, Anhui (now Jiangxi), is from Nanhai, Guangdong. /kloc-studied in the United States at the age of 0/2, 1878 was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University, majoring in railway engineering, and obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in his graduation thesis "Research on Wharf Crane"; 1905- 1909 directed the construction of China's first self-built railway-Jingzhang Railway; Created the "shaft construction method" and "herringbone" line that shocked China and foreign countries; Great achievements have been made in the planning and construction of railways in Hu Jia, Luotong, Lu Jin, Jinzhou, Pingyi, Xinyi, Chaoshan and Yuehan. He is the author of "Railway Terminology" and "Brief Introduction of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Project". Known as "the father of Chinese railways" and "the father of modern engineering in China".