京张铁路由“中国铁路之父”詹天佑主持修建,是中国第一条自主修建的干线铁路。该路所需修建经费约为当时清政府年财政收入的十分之一,全部为国内自筹。本文拟对清政府在财政极为困难的情况下为何要自筹经费,以及经费的落实与使用情况等,进行简要梳理。一英俄争夺促使清政府自筹经费修路张家口拱卫京师北大门,历来为兵家必争之地。清末,张家口又成为华北地区皮毛交易中 The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, chaired by Zhan Tianyou, the father of China Railway, is the first trunk railway built in China by itself. The construction cost of the road is about one-tenth of the annual financial revenue of the Qing government at that time, all of which are self-raised in China. This article intends to briefly explain why the Qing government in the extremely difficult circumstances of the financial self-financing, as well as the implementation and use of funds. An Anglo-Russian struggle prompted the Qing government to raise funds for self-financing Zhangjiakou Gongbei North Gate, has always been the battleground for the military. In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhangjiakou became a fur trade in North China