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Chao Chow and Swatow Railway
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The ChaoChow–Swatow Railway or "Chao-Shan" railway was a privately financed and constructed standard gauge railway which ran between Chaochow (pinyin: Cháozhōu, 潮州) and Swatow (pinyin: Shàntóu, traditional Chinese: 汕頭, simplified Chinese: 汕头) in Guangdong Province between 1906 and 1939.〔The China Year Book 1929-30, edited by H.G.W. Woodhead, published Tientsin 1930〕〔China's Struggle for Railroad Development by Chang Kia-Ngau, New York 1943〕It's also the first line entirely financed and managed by Chinese merchants.
==History==
As early as 1888 the British trading company Butterfield and Swire had sought to build this railway but were unsuccessful in gaining permission. In late 1903 a group of affluent overseas and Hong Kong Chinese, headed by Cheong Yuk Nam (pinyin: zhāng yù nán, 张煜南), invested a total of $300,000 and registered the Chao Chow and Swatow Railway Company with the Chamber of Commerce in Peking (Beijing) and also under Hong Kong laws. Cheong, who was Director-general of the company, had amassed a fortune from sago plantations in Sumatra and from other enterprises in Penang and South China. He was assisted by another prominent businessman, Lim La Sang (pinyin: lín wéi chāng 林为倡), who was appointed Managing Director. Lim, a Fukienese, had been educated in Hong Kong and had then made a fortune as a leading tea merchant in Formosa. In 1904 the contract for construction of the project was awarded to Japanese trading company Mitsui Bussan Kaisha for which Lim himself was an agent.〔Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong Shanghai & Other Treaty Ports, edited by A. Wright, London 1908〕
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