有人不止一次地问我:“中国人自己最早开办的发电工厂建于何年何地?”现经史籍查证,国内第一家发电工厂——西苑电公所兴建于1888年,距今已有一百多年历史.厂址设在北京紫禁城内西苑(今中南海)西门外盔头作坊北侧饽饽房(今国务院西大门外,原为一工厂制碱车间旧址,七十年代府右街拓宽筑路时该制碱车间拆除).说起这座宫办宫廷御用电厂,其来龙去脉鲜为人知.清·光绪十四年(1888年),慈禧太后按祖制被迫还政,退居西苑“休息”,大肆修葺.听说老佛爷很羡慕 Someone asked me more than once: “What year was the first time the Chinese people started their own power plant?” Over 100 years of history. The factory is located in the Xifang (now Zhongnanhai) Xiguan (now Zhongnanhai) outside the west gate of the Western Helmet Workshop (now the western gate of the State Council, formerly known as the site of a factory-made soda plant, and the right street in the 1970s. When the road building was widened, the soda plant was demolished.) Speaking of this royal palace-operated royal power plant, its background is rarely known. In the 14th year of the Qing and Qing dynasty (1888), the Empress Dowager Cixi was forced to repay the government and retired. Xiyuan “rests” and repairs it. Heard that Galeries Lafayette is envious