修通天蓝铁路 Xiutong Tianlan tielu Designer Yang Ziqiang (杨自强) Huang Naiyuan (黄乃源) Sun Yisheng (孙宜生) Liu Ping (刘苹) Date 1952, November Publisher Xibei renmin chubanshe (西北人民出版社) Size 55x73 cm. Call nr. BG E16/633 Collection IISH collection Notes Building railways has a high priority in the early 1950s. The two men below right in the brown suits are Soviet engineers, sent to China to help build up the infrastructure and industry. Theme Early Industrialization (1950-1955) Foreign Friends: Soviet Union Tags China poster railway viaduct Soviet advisor propaganda Chinese 1952 river train Soviet Union red flag construction early industrialization railroad tie