The history of China's railway transport
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China's first railway company -- the Kaiping Railway Company -- is founded in 1886. In this picture taken in 1888, Li Hongzhang (fourth from the left on the front row), a leading Chinese official of the Qing Dynasty, attended the opening ceremony of the 130-km Tangshan-Tianjin Railway. [File photo] |
