Chinas Railway Essay examples -- China History Infrastructure

In 1894, the Qing government was defeated in the Sino-Japanese struggle the Boxer Rebellion in China seized the railroad track interests. More than decade thousand kilometres to be swallowed up in China and carved up the right of way to form the imperialist plunder of Chinas prototypical climax. Subsequently, in accordance with their needs, they were designed and build a number of railways however it was in different standards, equipment clutter, resulting in confusion and China railway backwardness. The development of Chinas railway plait was started from 1876, which named Songhu line since 1981, and it was 105 years ago, building a 50,181 km railway. Before the Peoples Republic of China was been build up, the yearbook average of railway construction is only more than 300 kilometres. During the Qing Dynasty Songhu railroad line which was been built by British merchants in Shanghai is considered to be the Chinas first railway on the land. Before that, the British businessm en in Xuanwumen(Peking), built a 500 meters a small railway, only for the people to treated.In the Qing Dynasty (1876 1911), the construction of railway was about 9400 km. Imperialism, which directly accounts for about 41% of the construction business imperialist control through with(predicate) loans, about 39% state-owned railways, including Chinas Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was built as self-reliance, the business head office was redemption of the Beijing-Hankou Railway and Guangzhou third rail only accounted for about 20%.From 1881 to 1911 the railway built in the Tang Xu, which collapsed the Qing government for 30 years, is the first phase of the railway. At this stage, the Qing government as the continuous Westernization and domestic proposals to promote people with lofty... ...y two. initiatory goal is to reclaim those foreign concessions whose agreements had already been signed or drafted in advance this period. Secondly, the goal is to construct a Chinese railway syste m through investments in China. (LEE)Works CitedC.H.Paul, 1931. Railway Politics and the Open Door in China, 1916-1917Online, 25(4). Available at Accessed 26 November 2010D. Mclean, 1973.Chinese Railways and the Townley Agreement of 1903Online, 7(2). Available at Accessed 14 November 2010L.Enhan, 1977. Chinas quest for railway autonomy 1904-1911. 1st Ed. capital of Singapore Singapore University Press. The Central Peoples Government of the Peoples Republic of China, Available at Accessed 28 November 2010