In 191, Tangshan and Luanzhou were photographed by Japanese photographers.

These photos are quite different from those taken in Japan, and they are obviously serving the military.

Phoenix Mountain is also known as Shuangfeng Mountain, and was once called Tiebodhisattva Mountain. In the old days, there was Chaoyang Temple on the top of the mountain, where an iron bodhisattva was enshrined.

This photo was taken in 1882. At this time, Chaoyang Temple was still standing on the top of Fenghuang Mountain. On one side of the temple was a small pagoda with a big iron bell hanging in front of the main door. When the iron bell was rung, the bell could spread far away.

Tangshan Railway Station is the first railway station in China. The station is located at the crossing of the old station on the east side of the overpass in the city. At the beginning of 1882, Tangshan Railway Station was officially opened for business. As the first railway station at the starting point of Tangxu Railway, it is also known as "the first station in China".

Kaiping Northern Military Equipment School, the predecessor of Baoding Military Academy, was founded in the 21st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1895), located on the hillside of Beishan, five miles away from the north gate of Kaiping. The first phase enrolled 2 students with a three-year academic system. The first class graduated in 1898. At this time, several Germans stood in front of the school gate, which became the dormitory of German infantry.

Kaiping Coal Mine is a large-scale new-type coal mining enterprise run by officials and businessmen in the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, which occupies an important position in modern industrial history.

In September 1876, Li Hongzhang sent Tang Tingshu, the general manager of China Merchants Bureau, to Kaiping for investigation, and found that there were abundant coal resources underground. On June 25th, 1878, Kaiping Mining Bureau was formally established in Kaiping Town, Tangshan.

in 19, relying on Eight-Nation Alliance's military deterrence, British Molin Company seized the coal mine by cajoling and cheating, and changed its name to Kaiping Mining Co., Ltd., which was nominally a joint venture between China and foreign countries, but was actually controlled by British capital. In 1912, Luanzhou Coal Mine was annexed, which was collectively called Kailuan Coal Mine.

the so-called "cement" is cement. Tangshan Cement Factory was founded in 1889, with the initial name of "Fine Cotton and Soil Factory", which is our first cement production enterprise. However, because raw materials need to be transported from Xiangshan, Guangzhou to Tangshan by sea, the cost is too high, and it was once closed. In 1896, high-quality raw materials such as black soil and limestone were found near Tangshan, and the cement plant started again.

This photo is taken from the northern highlands of Pianliangting and Luanzhou City.

Pianliangting is located on the bank of Luanhe River, four miles north of Luanxian County. It was originally the name of a water pool, and there is a waterway leading to Luanhe River. During the Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao came here to watch fish by dry road when he was on an east tour. After that, he dredged the old waterway and set up a sluice gate to store water, which became the place where ships coming and going for water transportation docked.

Luanhe River originated in Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, Hebei Province, with a total length of nearly 9 kilometers. After flowing northward into Inner Mongolia, it turned back to Hebei, and finally flowed into the Bohai Sea at Nandou Net Shop in Laoting County.

The Luanhe Railway Bridge was designed and supervised by Zhan Tianyou, the "father of Chinese railways", and it is also the first railway bridge in Chinese history.

in 189, the Qing government planned to build a railway from Beijing to Shanhaiguan. In 1892, a railway bridge was needed to build the railway to Luanhe River. However, because the Luanhe River is wide and the water is urgent, and the sand at the bottom of the river is deep, the construction is very difficult. Engineers from Britain, Japan and Germany built the bridge one after another, but the piers were repeatedly built and collapsed.

Later, after careful investigation and careful design, Zhan Tianyou relocated the site and built the pier by using the ballast caisson method, and finally the bridge was able to cross the Luanhe River.