Chapter 36 Section 4 Sun Yat-sen personally draws the blueprint

The great pioneer of the democratic revolution, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, was not only a revolutionary, but also devoted great energy to the early railway construction in our country.After the Revolution of 1911, he personally served as the national railway supervisor, established the "China Railway Corporation", and worked hard and worked hard for my country's early railway construction.In order to transform the poor and backward old China into an independent, prosperous and powerful new China, in his industrial plan for developing the motherland, especially in his "Strategy for the Founding of the Nation", he carefully drew a majestic blueprint for economic construction and described it in detail. The strategic vision focusing on railway and port construction, especially the planning of railway construction, has profound and unique insights.

Mr. Sun Yat-sen believed that "traffic is the mother of industry" and "railway is the mother of traffic". "In today's world, there is no way to build a country without railways. China has a vast land and abundant resources, such as Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, Qinghai, etc., all of which are rich in resources. The traffic is inconvenient, the operation is not working, the business is difficult to revitalize, and there is no way to vent the wealth." He further proposed the ambitious goal of building 100,000 miles (about 160,000 kilometers) of railway within 10 years.The entire "Industrial Plan" consists of four plans.The first three plans center on the construction of the three great ports in the north, east and south, remediate rivers, start industries such as coal, iron, cement, and shipbuilding, and build corresponding railway systems, so that the three great ports can serve as trading ports for the domestic railway network. Together, it will become the "source" of economic cooperation and exchanges between China and the world, as well as the hub and "key" of transportation between China and foreign countries.The fourth plan is a specific railway construction plan formulated according to the conditions of each region, including five open railway systems of the Central, Southeast, Northeast, Northwest and Plateau, with a railway map attached.Here, Mr. Sun Yat-sen not only designed the "central" and main artery of the future railway in the land of China, but also considered the issue of the land bridge connecting Western Europe, India and other places with a long-term perspective.

Mr. Sun Yat-sen personally drew the grand blueprint for the development of the motherland's railways, and wrote an important chapter in the history of my country's transportation, especially the history of railway development.After his "Industrial Plan" was published, it was immediately praised and supported by public opinion.However, Duan Qirui and Wu Peifu, who inherited the rule of the Northern warlord Yuan Shikai at that time, implemented the policy of unifying China by force and were launching the Civil War.In addition, Sun Yat-sen's huge railway development plan was also difficult to realize under the conditions of the social background, economic situation and technological level at that time.However, Mr. Sun Yat-sen's railway construction thought undoubtedly has important reference and reference value for our socialist railway construction today.