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Zhan Tianyou (April 26, 1861, April 24, 1919) was a native of Wuyuan, Anhui (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi).English name: Jeme Tien Yow

He was the first railway engineer in China, responsible for the construction of the "Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway" and other projects, and is known as the "father of China's railways" and "the father of China's modern engineering". When he was a teenager, Zhan Tianyou was very interested in machines, and often worked with the children in the neighborhood to imitate various machine models with mud and soil. Sometimes, he secretly took apart the chiming clock at home, fiddled with and fiddled with the components inside, and asked some questions that even adults could not answer.

Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), also known as Zhan Tianyou, was born in Nanhai County, Guangdong. In 1872, he went to the United States to study and was the first government-funded student in modern Chinese history. In June 1878, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University in the United States to study railway engineering and received a bachelor's degree.

After graduating in 1881, he returned to China and entered the driving class of Fuzhou Mawei Shipmaster School. He participated in the Sino-French Battle of Mawei. Later, he taught at the Mawei Ship Master School, the Guangzhou Erudite Museum, and the Guangdong Chart Landscape and Land Teachers School.

In 1888, he became an engineer of the China Railway Company and participated in the construction of the Tianjin-Yu Railway. In 1894 he was elected a member of the British Engineering Research Society. In 1900, he served as an engineer of the Ping (Township) and Li (Ling) Railway. In 1902, he served as the chief engineer of the Xinyi Railway.

After 1905, he was transferred to the chief engineer of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, the general office and the general office, presided over the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, and invented the automatic hook of the train, which was the first person to design and build the railway by itself in China. After the completion of the railway in 1909, he was awarded the title of engineering scholar by the Qing Dynasty. Later, he served as the director of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, the supervisor of the Guangdong-Sichuan Railway, and the president of the Chinese Engineers Association.

He used to be a technical representative of China, negotiating with Tsarist Russia on the issue of the Eastern Eastern Railway and fighting for the right of way.

Zhan Tianyou is an outstanding patriotic engineer in my country. In 1905, Zhan Tianyou presided over the construction.

Tieban Road from Beijing to Zhangjiakou. In the process of building the railway, Zhan Quan Tianyou overcame many difficulties, among which Juyongguan adopted the method of digging from both ends to the middle at the same time, and Badaling he used the method of sinking wells in the middle. Near the Qinglong Bridge, he designed a "human" herringbone line.

In the end, the railway was completed two years ahead of schedule. Today, at Qinglongqiao Station, there is a bronze statue, that is, the statue of Zhan Tianyou.

Zhan Tianyou is a pioneer of modern science and a famous engineer, in the face of the difficult situation of having no capital, no return technology, and no one to answer the talent, Zhan Tianyou, a pioneer of modern science and a famous engineer, was full of patriotic enthusiasm and was ordered to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. With the spirit of selflessness and hardship, he traveled all over the mountains and mountains between Beijing and Zhangjiakou, and it took only 5 million yuan and 4 years to build the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which was planned for foreigners to cost 9 million yuan and took 7 years to complete.

The foreign experts who came to visit were all shocked and amazed. At that time, in recognition of Zhan Tianyou's achievements, some universities in the United States decided to award him a doctorate in engineering and invited him to attend the ceremony. However, Zhan Tianyou was tasked with the design of another railway, so he resolutely declined the invitation.

His spirit of serving the country and not making personal merits has won praise at home and abroad.