电报作为近代科技发展的产物,清咸丰初年开始传入中国,但并未引起时人注意。电报真正进入中国人的视野是在第二次鸦片战争之后。当时,俄、英、美等国为了利用电报这种全新的通讯工具,提高政令军情传达的速度和效率,加强对中国进一步的侵略、控制,不约而同地提出在中国铺设电线 As a product of the development of modern science and technology, Telegraph arrived in China in the early years of Qing Xianfeng, but it did not attract people’s attention. Telegraphs really entered the Chinese horizons after the Second Opium War. At that time, Russia, Britain, the United States and other countries in order to use the telegraph as a new communication tool to enhance the speed and efficiency of the military and political transmission of the decree, and to step up its aggressive aggression and control over China. Both of them proposed to lay wire in China