page_title: Chinese Eastern Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Chinese Eastern Railway
context_page_description: The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER simplified Chinese: 东清铁路; traditional Chinese: 東清鐵路; pinyin: Dōngqīng Tiělù, also known as or; Russian: Китайско-Восточная железная дорога or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD, also known in English as the Chinese Far East Railway, Trans-Manchurian Railway and North Manchuria Railway, is the historical name for a railway across Manchuria.
  The line was built by Imperial Russia using a concession from the Qing dynasty, and linked Chita with Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. The T-shaped line consisted of three branches: the western branch, now the Harbin–Manzhouli Railway, the eastern branch, now the Harbin–Suifenhe Railway, and the southern branch, now part of the Beijing–Harbin Railway, which intersected in Harbin. The railway and the concession, known as the Chinese Eastern Railway Zone, were administered from the city, which grew into a major rail hub.
  The southern branch of the CER, which became the Japanese South Manchuria Railway in 1906, became the locus and partial casus belli for the Russo-Japanese War, the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict, and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
context_section_description: The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER simplified Chinese: 东清铁路; traditional Chinese: 東清鐵路; pinyin: Dōngqīng Tiělù, also known as (东省铁路; 東省鐵路; Dōngshěng Tiělù) or (中东铁路; 中東鐵路; Zhōngdōng Tiělù); Russian: Китайско-Восточная железная дорога or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), also known in English as the Chinese Far East Railway, Trans-Manchurian Railway and North Manchuria Railway, is the historical name for a railway across Manchuria (northeastern China).
  The line was built by Imperial Russia using a concession from the Qing dynasty, and linked Chita with Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.  The T-shaped line consisted of three branches: the western branch, now the Harbin–Manzhouli Railway, the eastern branch, now the Harbin–Suifenhe Railway, and the southern branch, now part of the Beijing–Harbin Railway, which intersected in Harbin.  The railway and the concession, known as the Chinese Eastern Railway Zone, were administered from the city, which grew into a major rail hub.
  The southern branch of the CER, which became the Japanese South Manchuria Railway in 1906, became the locus and partial casus belli for the Russo-Japanese War, the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict, and the Second Sino-Japanese War.  The Soviet Union returned the Chinese Eastern Railway to the People's Republic of China in 1952.
caption: The routing of the main line of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Manzhouli to Harbin to Suifenhe), here labelled the Trans-Manchurian Railway, and its southern branch (Harbin to Dalian). After 1905, most of the southern branch (from Changchun to Dalian) became the Japan-run South Manchuria Railway