中国铁路初兴之时，因西方列强攫取主权，修路占用土地，使从事旧式运输业的农民失业，破坏庐墓等因，中国农民反对之，欲拆毁之。至二十世纪初年，随铁路作用的显现，清政府鼓励商办铁路，许多农民转而向铁路投资。至清末，农民为了反对清政府的铁路“干路国有”政策，捍卫商办铁路的权益，投入了保路运动。 At the beginning of the development of China’s railways, the Western powers seized the sovereignty and renovated their roads to occupy the land, so that the peasants engaged in the old-style transport industry would lose their jobs and ruin the tombs of tombs and other causes. The peasants in China opposed it and would like to demolish them. By the early twentieth century, with the manifestation of the railway’s role, the Qing government encouraged the commercial banks and many peasants to invest in the railway instead. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, in order to oppose the Qing government’s “state-of-the-road” policy on railroads and safeguarding the rights and interests of the commercial railroads, peasants put into the road-keeping movement.