China extends railway to Tibet's 2nd largest city

[Lankan Ranger]

China extends railway to Tibet's 2nd largest city

China started on Sunday to build an extension to the world's highest rail link, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, to Xigaze, the second largest city in the southwestern Tibet autonomous region.

The 253-km extension from Tibet's capital Lhasa to Xigaze will pass through five counties and over the 90-km long Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon.

The construction will take about four years.

It is the first extension of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway that opened in July 2006.

The Lhasa-Xigaze section of the railway, with a budget of 13.3 billion yuan ($1.95 billion), has a designed transport capacity of 8.3 million tons annually.

Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun said the extension is a key project in China's long and medium-term railway network expansion and will speed up Tibet's social and economic development.

It will play a vital role in boosting tourism and promoting the rational use of resources along the line, he said.

Xigaze, with a history of more than 600 years, is Tibet's second largest city and the traditional seat of the Panchen Lamas.

Xigaze City is the administrative center of the Tibetan prefecture of the same name, a 182,000 square km area that neighbors India, Nepal and Bhutan. It is also famous for Qomolangma (known as Mount Everest in the West), which rises up from it.

China extends railway to Tibet's 2nd largest city

 

[Lankan Ranger]

China may extend the Railway to India, Nepal & Bhutan

 

[twocents]

Landlocked Nepal has been pushing for a rail link with China since the days of King Biendra, That would give Nepal more leverage and room for manoeuvre.

 

[nomi007]

too good for Nepal for its economy

 

[Carnivore]

253km takes four years and stretch over the 90-km long Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon. This must be a very difficult one.

like this

this

or this

Good luck to those engineers

 

[Super Falcon]

china rocks china is building strong military infastructre in whole china and world class communication lines for its civilian and specially moto behind it to given chinese armed forces easy lines to whole country and make better communication with troubled state in china

 

[Carnivore]

We may see a lot of man made marvels in next few years.

Yichang-Wanzhou railway is due to open in November 20. One of the most difficult railways in the world.

YiChang-Wanzhou railway is to open

Yichang–Wanzhou Railway, an important railway linking Central China and West China, will be opened to traffic on November 20, 2010. When it opens, it will only take about 10 hours from Wuhan to Chongqing (compared with 18 hours before) by express trains, and about 21 hours from Chengdu to Shanghai (saving more than 10 hours than before).

Yichang–Wanzhou Railway stretches 377 kilometers (234 miles) from Yichang City, Hubei Province to Wanzhou District of Chongqing City, and joins Shanghai-Chengdu Railway, which passes Shanghai, Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Yichang, Chongqing and Chengdu along the way. Because of the complex geologic conditions, Yichang–Wanzhou Railway is regarded as the most difficult railway project in China. It cost 60 million yuan per kilometer, which is twice as much as that of Qinghai–Tibet Railway. The total length of tunnels and bridges is about 279 kilometers (173 miles), taking up 74% of the whole line, hence the railway is said to be “the museum of tunnels and bridges”.

 

[mughaljee]

Not much difficult then "Karakorum Highway"

 

[mivy]

China extends railway to Tibet's 2nd largest city


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China extends railway to Tibet's 2nd largest city

Please use Xizang Autonomous region when you refer to Tibet next time. Because Tibet might make the public feel that Tibet region is a independent Country, the fact is that the central government of China obtained Jurisdiction there centuries ago.

 

[no_name]

I feel tibet is just a place name, like hubei, or shandong.
Stressing on the "autonomous region" on the other hand make it sound different from other chinese territory.