知识链接1.中国最早的铁路是1876年英国人擅自修建的沪淞铁路,这条铁路经营了一年多时间,后被清政府赎回拆除。洋务运动期间,洋务派主持修建的唐山至胥各庄铁路(1881年),揭开了中国自主修建铁路的序幕。2.1885年,《中法新约》规定,中国日后在广西、云南修筑铁路应与法国商办,法国在中国取得了修筑铁路的特权。 Knowledge Links 1. The earliest railway in China was the Shanghai-Shantou railway built without authorization by the British in 1876. The railway operated for more than a year and was later redeemed by the Qing government. During the Westernization Movement, the Tangshan-Ganggezhuang Railway (1881) constructed by the Westernization School opened the prelude to China’s autonomous railway construction. In the year of 1885, the “New China-France Treaty” stipulated that China’s future construction of railways in Guangxi and Yunnan should be conducted with the French Chamber of Commerce. France has obtained the privilege of building railways in China.