Did you know that Chinese workers played a major part in building America's first transcontinental railroad? And what do you know about the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway – the first of its kind designed and built solely by the Chinese?

Let's unravel these questions and many more with CGTN's Shen Shiwei and a group of young American civil engineering students. Together, they pay tribute to Zhan Tianyou, the father of Chinese railways, and explore how people from China and the U.S. have collaborated to connect the world through railways.