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Qinghai-Tibet Railway completed track-laying
www.chinanews.cn 2006-05-03 14:30:08
����Chinanews, May 3 - The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, a railroad at the
highest altitude of the world, has completed track-laying of the whole
line and is expected to start trial operation on July 1 this year.
����It is learnt that the 1,142-kilometer-long tracks on the Golmud-Lhasa
section, main line of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, has completed
track-laying last year. As the symbolic project of China's western
development, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway started construction in June 2001.
����The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the highest railway in the world so far,
and the average temperature along the line is below zero degree Celsius,
with the oxygen content in the air constituting only half of the level in
plain areas. It stretches 960 kilometers across areas above 4,000 meters
above sea level and reaches the highest point of 5,072 meters on the
Tanggula Mountains.
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