论晚清时期谢家福对中国电信事业的贡献

Discussion on XIE Jiafu′s Contributions to Telecommunications Industry in the Late Qing Dynasty

晚清时期,中国对西方科技成果电报的引进,开启了中国电信事业近代化的艰难历程。在中国电信事业草创阶段,谢家福在电报线路的筹建与扩展、电报价格的调整与规范、电报器材自制与电报人才培养等方面做出了巨大贡献,是开拓中国电信事业的先行者之一。在晚清社会转型的复杂背景下,谢家福奠定了中国电信事业发展基础,促进了中国电信事业走向近代化。谢家福作为先行实践者,在创建中国电信事业时有一定的历史局限性。

In the late Qing Dynasty, the introduction of telegram, the achievement of Western science and technology, started the difficult course of modernization of China′s telecommunications industry. In the pioneer stage of China′s telecommunications industry, XIE Jiafu made great contributions to the preparation and extension of telegraph lines, to the adjustment and regulation of telegraph prices, and to the self-made telegraph equipment and the training of telegraph personnel. In view of the complicated background of drastic social transformation in the late Qing Dynasty, it was extremely rare for XIE Jiafu to lay a solid foundation for the development and modernization of China′s telecommunications industry. However, as a pioneer practitioner, XIE Jiafu had a certain historical limitation in the establishment of China Telecom.