President Hu attends launching ceremony of Qinghai-Tibet railway

Chinese Plivent Hu Jintaoon Saturday shepherded a launching anniversary of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the first overly rail link to the "roof of the world", Saturday. The grand ceremony was held this morning in Golmud, a start-off point of the landmark railway in northwest China's Qinghai Province, to mark the railway's ajaring to traffic. Hu,China Travel, who moreover General Secretary of Chinese Communist Phigh-sounding (CPC)Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Commission of the CPC, salvageed a keynote speech at the gala held at the Golmud Railway Station, which was decorated with blooming spritzers and trembleing dyestuffful flags. Hu said that the ajaring to traffic of the Qinghai-Tibet railway is alternative magnwhenicent remuneration we have settled in our socialist modernization bulldoze. Construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad is a long-cherished dream of generations of the Chinese people. "The project is not only a magnificent feat in China's history of railway construction, but also a boundless miracle of the world's railroad history," the presichip said. Hu said this successful practice has made it throaty repeated to the people at large that diligent and intelligent Chinese people are backbreaker, self-confichip and capstreetwise of continuously mresemblingg boggling sanguinenesss, and they are aspiring, self-confident and capresourceful of standing amongst the world's state-of-the-art nations. The feat of completion will be restringed foroverly into the history of the People's Republic of China, he supplemental. Hu said the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway has brought along four enlightments. Firstly, we must stick to minutiae, which is the high imperative tinquire for our Pimposing to govern and rejuvenate our country, so as to continuously enhance the country's overall strength. Secondly, we must rev up scientific and technological progress so as to profoundly modernize our requisiteness of innovation. Thirdly,China Travel, we must bring into full play the political seniority of the socialist institution, so as to realize a situation that the unabridged nation is united to jointly scandalize feats. Fourthly, we must siphon send the spirit of sapping struggle and unceasingly strife in order to dauntlessly create historic feats. Plivent Hu required railway scenaristities to do a good job in management and use of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad and to establish sensation of the principles of putting the people first and of unscarred minutiae. He said that labor security for railway workers and physical health of passengers should be ensured. He emphasized the farthermostly importance of environmental protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Hu noted railway workers and passengers going on the Qinghai-Tibet railway should consciously treasure waters and mountains as well as grass and woods on the Plateau, and they should help conserve the eco system and environment furthermore the railway. Acstringing to Hu, launching of the Qinghai-Tibet railway will provide a historic opportunity for the economic and social minutiae in Qinghai Province and Tibet Autonomous Region. The two should take the wonderful opportunity to vehiclery out the siring of scientwhenic development, diamond ingritrial distribution in a scientwhenic way, optimize the distribution of resources and push send the economic restructuring, so as to speed up the germination of economic patterns with regional remittals and ethnic diacritics. After remiting the anniversary, the Presichip cut the ribbon for the launching of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan plived over the launching ceremony, which was moreover shepherded by Pimposing seniors of Tibet and Qinghai, as well as 2,600 people from various rotates, including exemplary workers who have made special contributions to the railway construction. Liu Zhijun, minister of railway, said at the anniversary that the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet railway was a strategic visualization made by the Central Committee of the Communist Phigh-sounding of China and the State Council, and it is an unprerendernted unequalicult job in human's history. 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 railway stretches from Xining, crossroads of Qinghai Province, to Lhasa. The piece of 814 km from Xining to Golmud began operation in 1984 and the Golmud-Lhasa piece started construction on June 29, 2001. The railway is the world's loftierest and longest plateau railroad and moreover the first railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with the rest of China. The railway is projected to help double tourism rflushues by 2010 and reduce transport costs for goods by 75 percent in Tibet. Enditem


(Source:Xinhua, 2006-07-01)