筑就中华大地的龙骨

筑就中华大地的龙骨

Build Chinesel and keels

詹天佑Zhan Tianyou标准轨距Standardgauge工程标准图Engineeringstandard drawings

——《呈部文》/詹天佑

“Recently,the existing rail projects in the provinces differ from each other.……Unless we develop a standard for them in advance,there will be a lot of trouble to join the rails in the future.……We shall collect all the blueprints submitted by rail projects all over the country,choose the best solution to develop a standard,and apply the standard to all the projects,so that a railway network will be achieved without any obstacle.”

直隶总督李鸿章视察唐胥铁路

从远古洪荒到十九世纪中叶，中华先贤遵循着朴素的标准化思想，以一件件构思精巧的器物、一则则厘定方圆的律令、一部部名垂青史的典籍，在文明传播、健康医疗、建筑营造、农耕稼穑等诸多领域为人类社会技术进步，留下了一串串闪亮的足迹。

From the ancient prehistoric period to the middle of 19th Century,following the simple standardization concept,Chinese ancestors created countless sophisticated articles;developed laws and norms on standardization and classical technical documents;and made great achievements for the advancement of human society in the fields of culture communication,medical care,architecture,and agriculture.

1825年，英国工程师乔治·斯蒂芬森驾驶的“运动号”蒸汽机车，以每小时19公里的速度带领人类社会进入了铁路时代。半个世纪后的1879年，命运多舛的中华民族也以开通唐胥铁路为起点，开始了以铁路为载体的近代交通领域的标准化实践。

In 1825,George Stephenson,a British engineer, led human society into the railway age with the steamlocomotivenamed Locomotionatthe speed of 19 km per hour.Half a century later,in 1879,the ill-fated Chinese nation started standardization practice in the field of modern transportation,with the opening of Kaiping railway.

留美幼童

在那个辉煌与遗憾交织的年代，中华工学家们始终坚持“从事业以求真理”，而中国近代交通领域的标准化成就则更多地与一位留美幼童的命运联系在一起——中国首位铁路工程师詹天佑。

In that era with both brilliance and regrets,Chinese scientists insisted on pursuing truth with practices.China's achievements of standardization in the field of modern transportation have been connected to the fate of a Chinese educational mission student-Zhan Tianyou,who was the first Chinese railway engineer.

1905年，詹天佑率先上书清廷采用铁路标准轨矩；1909年，主持建成第一条实施工程标准图的京张铁路；1913年，牵头成立中华工程师会、出任铁路技术委员会会长，推动制订和统一铁路建筑规程、设备标准、行车规章制度；1915年纂成《新编华英工学字汇》审定统一名词译法……

In 1905,Zhan Tianyou submitted a petition to the government of Qing Dynasty to propose adopting standard railway gauge.In 1909,he led the construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway (Beijing to Zhangjiakou),the first railway con-structed in China adopting engineering standard drawings.In 1913,he led the establishment of Chinese Engineer Federation,took up the post of the Chairman of the railway technical committee, and developed standards including railway construction specification,equipment standards,and driving rules.In 1915,he complied New Chinese-English Engineering Dictionary and unified the engineering vocabulary translation.

隧洞施工

京张铁路修成时，詹天佑（车前右三）与同事合影

毫无疑问，詹天佑超越同辈的标准化理念、质量管理意识和不知疲倦的筑路实践，为中国铁路事业奠定了最初的坚实基础、昭示了伟大的发展将来。

Undoubtedly,with the advanced concept in standardization and quality management,and continuous construction practice,Zhan Tianyou laid a solid foundation for Chinese railway business and thereby declared the great future.

现今，中国铁路早已统一了设计标准和设备型式，以占世界铁路6%的营业里程承载起世界铁路25%的运输量。我们有理由相信：在与标准化科学的融合发展下，中国铁路——这条“万里国脉”将成为支撑中国经济巨轮破浪前行的坚强龙骨！

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张家口各界欢迎京张铁路竣工验收

Nowadays,Chinese railway has already developed unified design standards and equipment specifications,and has accounted for 25%of the world railway traffic volume with only 6%of total operating mileage.We have reasons to believe that with the integral development of standardization science,the railway will become the supportive keels for the China's economy giant vessel!

（支持单位：上海市标准化研究院 整理：杨超 叶笑欣）