Tianjin–Pukou railway

The Tianjin–Pukou or Jinpu railway (Postal spelling: Tientsin-Pukow Railway; simplified Chinese: 津浦铁路; traditional Chinese: 津浦鐵路; pinyin: Jīnpǔ Tiělù) runs from Tianjin to Pukou district outside Nanjing in Jiangsu province.

The first proposals to build railways in China began in the 1860s with opposition from the elite, who worried that it would increase the likelihood of regime change.

However, due to technical and financial constraints, foreign support was needed to build the earliest railways.

At a conference in London in September 1898, British and German capitalists decided to build a railway from Tianjin to Zhenjiang.

The proposed course for the railway was to connect the political center of China in the north to the economic hub in the southern region, as well as the Yangtze River.