Tag: Wuxi, Jiangsu (China)*
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Major Railways in China’s Lower Yangtze Region
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M189 Creator: Yanwei Yang ’21 Computer Science Railway transportation has a significant impact on regional economic development. In the history of modern China, the completion of the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo railways, the railroad network demonstrated strong technical and cost advantages and changed the traditional transportation pattern in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou area. Among them, the…
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Foreign Built Railways in China
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M077 Creator: Andrew Lee ’19 Chemistry At the start of the 1900s, there was a scramble to build railroads in imperial China by the major European powers to earn money, gain provisional control, and extract riches from the surrounding areas. This model proved incredibly successful for the British and Germans, with their…