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Qinghai-Tibet Railway opens to traffic

www.chinanews.cn 2006-07-01 17:43:48

Passengers have started boarding the first pair of trains that will take
them to a ride across the "roof of the world" later on Saturday.

Tibetans living along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on June 26. For Tibetans
living along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, its completion and opening to
traffic will not only mean a powerful engine to drive Tibet's economic
development, but also bring about profound social changes and make
Tibetan herdsmen's life more colorful.

GOLMUD/LHASA, July 1 - Passengers have started boarding the first pair of
trains that will take them to a ride across the "roof of the world" later
on Saturday.
The trains rolled out of their stations at around 11:00 am, sources said.
China opens Qinghai-Tibet Railway with first train setting off to Tibet
GOLMUD, July 1 - China on Saturday opened the world's most elevated
railway with the first pair of passenger trains traveling across the
"roof of the world".
Two trains set off at Golmud and Lhasa, the two start-up points of the
Qinghai-Tibet Railway that is dubbed an "engineering marvel" that has
linked Tibet with the rest of China for the first time. ��<Full
Story>
Relics of Chinese civilization found along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Chinanews, Xining, June 29 - Archaeologists discovered that early in the
later period of the Paleolithic Age, there were ancient human activities
along the Qinghai-Tibet railway line. They found relics of human
activities during this period in the Tuotuo River at the Thanglha
mountain district, Hol Xil and the Small Tsaidam Lake at Tsaidam Basin
and gathered large quantities of manually forged stone products,
including stone kernels, stone knives, choppers, scrapers and spikes.
They estimated that human beings had been living here no later than
30,000 years ago. ��<Full Story>
Construction of Qinghai-Tibet railway does not destroy local religious
sites
Chinanews, Lhasa, Jun. 27 �C The Zham heaven burial (or exposure burial)
platform situated in Amdo County, Nagqu Prefecture, Tibet, is the only
one of its kind for local residents living nearby. Construction of the
Qinghai-Tibet railway had not caused any damage to the religious site,
nor the lives of the cinereous vulture, regarded as the holy eagle in
local religious rituals. ��<Full Story>
China plans to build resorts along Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Chinanews, Beijing, June 27 - China's National Tourism Administration and
other departments are working on the "tourism development plan along the
Qinghai-Tibet Railway" to build a golden tourism route around the "Roof
of the world" in western China. ��<Full Story>
Tibetan antelopes adapted to the channel cross Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Chinanews, Jun. 12 �CInformation collected during this year's migration
season shows that Tibetan antelopes have become fully familiar with the
animal channel built to help them cross the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the
Hohxil National Protection Management Bureau told reporters. ��<Full
Story>
Qinghai-Tibet Rail to bring mineral water to Beijing
Chinanews, Beijing, June 12 (By Zhao Jianhua) - As the Qinghai-Tibet
Railway is about to open to traffic, the transportation bottleneck that
constrains local economic development will be solved, and more resources
in Qinghai Province and Tibet Autonomous Region will have access to the
outside world. ��<Full Story>
Police patrol on horses in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Chinanews, May 31 �C In Cairima, a village in Maqu County in southern
Gansu province, local police ride on horses to patrol in an area that is
3,700 meters above sea level. Their camping ground has only a few simple
facilities��a big tent, ten horses, and four vehicles. Head of the patrol
team Song Wei and his colleagues have been working here for eight months.
"As long as we are here, local crime rate will decrease," Song said.
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Five-star trains to run on Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Chinanews, May 17 - The Qinghai-Tibet Railway will be put into trial
operation on July 1. According to Ma Jiantang, deputy governor of Qinghai
Province, five-star sight-seeing trains will run on the railway, with the
fare reaching US$1,000 per day. Such trains will only open to overseas
tourists according to the current plan. ��<Full Story>
Oxygen-supply systems equipped on Qinghai-Tibet trains
Chinanews, Apr.25 �C According to the Qinghai-Tibet Railroad Corporation,
the Golmud-Lhasa section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will be put into
trial operation on July 1, and two systems supplying dispersed oxygen and
oxygen masks will be equipped on the train so as to help passengers
overcome altitude sickness. ��<Full Story>

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