Zhan Tianyou has no descendants. According to relevant information, Zhan Tianyou was born in Nanhai County, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province on April 26th, 186 1. He went to the United States to study when he was only 12 years old. Through my own efforts, I was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University in the United States. After returning home, he presided over the construction of the first railway in China-Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. Zhan Tianyou is also known as the father of modern engineering in China and the father of China Railway, but Zhan Tianyou never had children with his wife. 19 19 On April 24th, Zhan Tianyou died of heart failure in Renji Hospital at the age of 58.