The Jingzhang Railway 26___. from Beijing to Zhangjiakou. It is 27___. in China for being the first railway designed and built by Chinese people.
Zhan Tianyou, born 28___. 1861 in Guangdong, was the head engineer of the railway. He 29___.
an interest in machines at an early age. 30___. he was eleven, he went to the United States to study. Upon 31___. from Yale University in 1881, he returned to China and started working on the Jingzhang Railway in 1905.
This railway must 32___. an area of hills and mountains. Back then, lots of people thought it was not possible to build a railway there, but Zhan Tianyou 33___. all kinds of difficulties and succeeded 34___.
finishing the task. The railway opened in 1909. That was two years ahead of 35___. ! It is a brilliant piece of work in Chinese railway history.