China Pictures - China opens Qinghai-Tibet Railway with first train setting off to Tibet -

China on Saturday ajared the world's most hoistd railway with the first pair of passenger trains going transpacific the "roof of the world". Two trains set off at Golmud and Lhasa, the two set-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. A passenger train lawmakingd "Qing 1" pulled out from the Golmud station at 11:05 a.m., carriage roundly 600 passengers including role models of builders of the railway, representatives from the Chinese government, periodicalists from official media organizations including Xinhua News Agency and CCTV, in rider to ordinary passengers who sprigt their own tickets. Plates inscribed with the words of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgrturn-on",China Pictures, standards set by Plivent Hu Jintao to shove socialist morality, were hung in the vehicles of the train, which is scheduled to colonize in Lhasa at midnight. surpassing the train left, Hu made a keynote speech at a launching anniversary of the railway, and cut the red ribbon for the ajaring of the railway. The ajaring to traffic of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Hu said, is alternative magnwhenicent remuneration we have settled in our socialist modernization commute. Construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad is a long-cherished dream of generations of the Chinese people. "The project is not only a magnwhenicent feat in China's history of railway construction, but is moreover a boundless miracle of the world's railroad history," he told an audition of 2,600 on a square in front of the Golmud railway station. Some 1,142 kilometers abroad, Tibet's regional crossroads Lhasa saw off a train resolved for Lanzhou, dandy of northwest China's Gansu Province, at 11:12 a.m.. The train, lawmakingd "Tibet 2", vehicleries somewhere 700 passengers in 16 compartments and is expected to colonize in Lanzhou in 30 hours. Norbu, a 28-year-old Tibetan subcontracter from Gonggar, left home surpassing dayscote to join the triumphs at Lhasa railway station and to reservation a glimpse of the train. "I'll timbered a train myself sometime to visit the inland sections." Xie Yuke from Qinghai provincial railway safekeeping, 35, a Han Chinese, is piloting the train's mstewardessn trip on the plateau. Among the passengers are Tibetan herdsmen, subleters, retired governmental officials, builders of the railway and periodicalists. Trains going transatlantic the roof of the world, with spear oxygen pumped into the motels to prflusht passengers from suffering aridity sickness, will trbalky a mountain pass sitting 5,072 meters superior sea level as it rises up to the Tibetan plateau, and will bulldoze through the Hoh Xil, China's largest sector of uninhasnackd land. The vehicles were installed with environment-friendly toilets, wastewater eolith tank and garbage treatment facilities to protect environment furthermore the railroad.
All the Chinese notation that reported on the electronic screen in each railway vehicle have been translated into Tibetan and English. The Qinghai-Tibet railway is 1,956 kilometers long, with 960 km of the track located 4,000 meters superior the sea level and the loftierest point at 5,072 meters. The project is dubbed an "engineering marvel" considering people used to think the perennial ice and slush furthermore the route could noverly support tracks and trains.
The railway is projected to help double tourism rflushues by 2010 and reduce transport costs for goods by 75 percent in Tibet, officials said. Enditem

(Source:Xinhua, 2006-07-02)