The picture dated Nov 22 shows machine laying tracks after snow. The track laying of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway progresses smoothly from Anduo to Lhasa. A total of 190 kms of track has been completed and there is only 200 kms to go to reach Lhasa.
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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I suggest China to make up a Railway system like Japanese's Shinkansen
It'll be much more convinient I believe

The construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail will begin soon,and more high speed railways will be built in coastal areas, however there's no need for high-speed rail in less developed areas, for example tibet, people cant afford it so what's the point of building it.

Ya, I agree with u,
So, actually, High Speed Train in East Coast of China is already enough~!

I suggest China to make up a Railway system like Japanese's Shinkansen
It'll be much more convinient I believe
A high-speed rail linking Tibet simply doesn't make sense right now. There is already a new airport in Lhasa for visitors who wish to arrive in Tibet quickly. The new railroad is probably just for moving goods.

A high-speed rail linking Tibet simply doesn't make sense right now. There is already a new airport in Lhasa for visitors who wish to arrive in Tibet quickly. The new railroad is probably just for moving goods.
Ya, I agree

:cheers: The construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail will begin soon,and more high speed railways will be built in coastal areas, however there's no need for high-speed rail in less developed areas, for example tibet, people cant afford it so what's the point of building it.
Still 17 hours to make the 630km journey between Wuhan and Sanghai last summer (with the express train...). So what about conventionnal trains in devellopped areas?

A high-speed rail linking Tibet simply doesn't make sense right now. There is already a new airport in Lhasa for visitors who wish to arrive in Tibet quickly. The new railroad is probably just for moving goods.
I don't think it is a high speed train, it's just a train, and very usefull because plane is too expensive and road can't help supply the area in merchandises /mining in tibet may be considered now/.
By the way, aren't this the highest tracks on earth? I think I heard something like that...

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Still 17 hours to make the 630km journey between Wuhan and Sanghai last summer (with the express train...). So what about conventionnal trains in devellopped areas?

express? r u sure? it only takes 8hours now from beijing to shanghai if you take non-stop express, basically you take the train in the evening and you get a good sleep and you arrive in the morning. beijing shanghai are 1000 km apart! more than the distance between wuhan and shanghai. and it's no high speed, just conventional, the high speed hasnt been built yet.

China's Qinghai-Tibet railway to start trial operation in 15 months

BEIJING, March 7 (AFP) - Track laying for China's Qinghai-Tibet railway will be completed by the end of this year and the world's highest railway will begin trial operation on July 1, 2006, state media said Monday.

Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun made the announcement Monday on the sidelines of the national parliament's annual meeting, the National People's Congress, the Xinhua news agency said.

Construction of the 1,142-kilometer (713-mile) railway started in 2001 and the project will cost 26.2 billion yuan (3.16 billion dollars).

After it officially opens to traffic in 2007, the railway is expected to link Tibet's capital Lhasa with Xining, the capital of northwest China's Qinghai province, as well as Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Guangzhou cities, Xinhua said.

Tibet currently does not have a railway system.

China revealed last year it was forced to pump another 5.5 billion yuan into the original budget for the project to ensure the railway opened on time.

In December, Xinhua said 738 kilometers (457 miles) of track had been laid.

The project has been criticised by Tibetans' rights advocates who say that while it could bring economic benefits, it was part of an effort to encourage Han Chinese migrants to settle in Tibet, which China brought under its control in 1951 following an invasion of the Himalayan region.

why dont they build sichuan-tibet railway? isn't it shorter?

why dont they build sichuan-tibet railway? isn't it shorter?
Qinghai is underdeveloped just like Tibet, when compared to rest of the country, especially the coastal regions.

Sichuan is already well-connected.

Besides, this railroad will link to Chengdu as well.

from what i know, they already built a railroad running from xining to the base of the tibetan plateau at town called golmud many years before the tibetan railway project went underway. so, they only have to build the tibetan railway and connect it to it. however, there's no railroad built like that from sichuan, so a qinghai-tibet railway is still shorter.

this is gonna be the greatest accomplishment in railroad building ever since the chunnel.

why dont they build sichuan-tibet railway? isn't it shorter?
it shorter but absolutely more difficult, when Chinese built chuan-zang(sichuan to tibet) road in 1950s, it costed 1 life every 3 kms, ( the road is 2400kms)

Sorry, I search on the net, and... really been shocked.

the right number is over 3000 died in the construction, and 647 died in last 50 years for maintaining this road.

Swiss-Swedish ABB wins 18.1 mln yuan contract for China Qinghai-Tibet railway
25 May 2005

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - ABB Ltd, a Swiss-Swedish power and automation technology company, said it has signed an 18.1 mln yuan contract with Qinghai Electric Power Co to deliver gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) to the Qinghai-Tibet railway.

In a statement, ABB said it will supply seven circuit breaker bays of GIS to the 1,956-kilometer long railway, the world's highest, between northwestern China's Qinghai province and Tibet in the southwest.

Is this also the railway line that links Beijing with Lhasa?

Global warming poses threat to Tibet rail link
Reuters
June 24, 2005

Rising temperatures on the "roof the world'' threaten China's controversial railway link across the snow-covered Tibetan plateau, the China Daily said Thursday.

The pan-Himalayan rail project, which began in 1958, eight years after mainland troops invaded Tibet, is expected to be finished by the end of this year.

"By 2050, safe operation of the Qinghai-Tibet railway will be affected if temperatures keep rising steadily as observed over past decades,'' Luo Yong, deputy director of the National Climate Center, was quoted as saying.

Winter and summer temperatures on the Tibetan plateau could jump as much as 3.4 degrees Celsius by 2050, causing normally frozen ground under the rail line to melt, the China Daily said. Many climatologists consider the plateau a "magnifier'' of global climate change and an indicator of warming trends across East Asia, it said.

The railway will span 2,040 kilometers from Xining in Qinghai province, to the capital of Tibet, Lhasa.

China says the rail link will promote development and help raise living standards in the impoverished region, while Tibet activists say it will speed up the pace of Chinese migration to the area and dilute Tibetan culture.

Luo issued his warning at a symposium on climate change in Beijing, which has been simmering under temperatures as high as 40C in a heat wave that has struck northern China.

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Nice! When will the rail be publicly open and functional?

軌道車的引擎不能自造, 要用外國的, 恥辱. 路牌用水泥板造, 造非常粗糙, 新的就被碰撞到崩崩爛爛, 難看. 為什麼不用金屬或不锈鋼材料做路牌或路標呢? 如果用金屬或不锈鋼材料成本高, 一定要用水泥來降低成本, 為什麼不先做一個金屬模來製造平滑標準水泥板模塊呢? 如此簡單的美觀的改進, 好像在中國就沒人去想.

其實米國製造的引擎看起來也很粗糙, 看起似是上世紀20年代的製作工藝, 會不會米國GE故意賣一些次貨給中國? 听說中國賣辦和GE簽幾十億元買幾百個火車頭的訂單. 一看價錢是非常超貴的.

nineth 你知道什么叫环保 吗 青藏铁路最重要的是环保 你怎么都不知道呀 亏你还是中国人 而且中国级别最小的站 都有 站牌 都是有统一 规定的！ 还有那个地方都是无人区 为什么设一个站 就是为了 以后旅游！还有你对火车机车 的了解简直是白痴 ！现在澳大利亚在跑的机车 都是这个的 上代产品！引擎不是不能自造 中国造的引擎在西藏照样 跑的很好！

青藏铁路造好后 除了 铁轨 和一些站台 其他 要全部恢复到造铁路前的生态面貌 你可以看 铁路经过的地方 生态几乎没有破坏！

为什么 选择 GE的机车 应为 在西藏无人区 跑的火车 要求性能高 而且 牵引要大 因为海拔高 质量要好 在无人区 机车出故障的话 可能给旅客带来生命危险

型号：C38AChe发动机功率：3800马力
重量：138吨

制造日期：2005年11月美国通用公司在宾西法尼亚州的工厂制造。

因为GE的机车，在秘鲁那条高原铁路用过，是唯一有如此高海拔运行经验的机车

美国的是客运货运还是用自己的

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世界上海拔最高的铁路——青藏铁路有了自己的内燃机车：专为正在建设中的青藏铁路设计的“雪域神舟”号内燃机车，在戚墅堰机车车辆厂研制成功，今天竣工出厂。
　　“雪域神舟”号机车的研制成功，填补了我国高原大功率内燃机车的空白，为今后青藏铁路全线开通积累了数据、提供了经验。
　　青藏铁路最高海拔达5072米，是世界上海拔最高、线路最长、气候条件最恶劣的铁路线。建设青藏铁路，是党中央、国务院为实施西部大开发战略、促进青藏两省区经济和社会发展、加强民族团结、巩固祖国边防作出的一项重大决策。但是，青藏铁路格尔木至拉萨段地处青藏高原腹地，海拔高、气压低、温差大、风沙多，且地质结构为独特的冻土层，机车研制难度极大，且国内外没有成熟的经验可供借鉴。
　　“雪域神舟”号机车，融“可靠性”与“先进性”于一体，采用双机重联，能通过微机控制使柴油机功率随海拔高度自动调整，以保证柴油机功率在高原条件下仍能充分发挥。车体采用特殊承载结构，增强隔热、吸震效果。冷却水系统采用加压冷却方式，保证在高海拔、低气压情况下水的沸点不低于100℃。车顶夹层采用独立通风系统，可以防风沙、雨雪入侵，并可降低车内真空度。车体、转向架和冷却装置钢结构等均采用了低温性能好的高强度桥梁钢。为了保证司乘人员在缺氧条件下能借助吸氧正常工作，司机室上部还安装了变压吸附式制氧机。由于格尔木至拉萨段雷暴雨较多，机车还加装了防雷接地装置。
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在青藏线南山口至五道梁区间走了一圈，其间路过了海拔4771米的昆仑山口和超长大桥——清水河大桥，在哪里，一位工程师的话让我深有感触：“青藏线不但是用钱累出来的，更是以生命为代价换来的！”对于生活在平原上的人来说，很难想象在海拔3000米以上的地方从事体力劳动的辛劳。对于我而言，有了这样一次上山的经历后，对于青藏线的建设者，我只能由衷的祝福他们“一路平安”！

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【大公网讯】据报导，为庆祝青藏铁路七月一日通车，青藏铁路二期起点青海省格尔木市当天将举行通车仪式，中国国家主席胡锦涛主持剪彩，并率官员乘首班豪华有氧列车，一起体验这条全球海拔最高铁路的高原火车之旅。
中国历时五年、耗资人民币二百多亿元建成青藏铁路二期工程，一般认为，这对西藏的经济和国防建设具有重要战略意义据香港报章今天报导，为迎接七月一日通车典礼，中国国家铁道部辖下的青藏铁路建设总指挥部过去几个月一直在紧张准备，六十多列特制高原氧气列车已陆续由山东调往青海西宁市和西藏拉萨市，新建成的路段也经过反复列车试行，最后的试车上周末刚结束。
据称，北京决定为青藏铁路通车举行隆重仪式，中共总书记、国家主席胡锦涛亲自主持剪彩仪式，宣布这条铁路通车。消息人士表示，胡锦涛还将与众高官一起登上特制豪华氧气列车，体验高原火车之旅。目前不清楚胡锦涛一行会否乘专列直抵拉萨。胡锦涛曾于一九八八年至一九九二年担任西藏自治区党委书记，九二年调任北京后，至今未回过西藏。
-报导说，七月一日从西宁开出的首班入藏列车受记者和各大旅行社热追，早已满座，甚至连当天从北京开出的列车亦早已爆棚。官方已宣布青藏线始发站有北京、西宁、成都、上海、广州五个点。青藏铁路是由青海省西宁市到西藏拉萨市，原本铁路线只建到青海格尔木，零一年动工的二期工程从格尔木直抵拉萨，完成整条青藏线路。铁路共设四十五个站，其中只有八站有人值班；全线设置六个观景台，旅客可以观赏巍峨的昆仑山脉主峰玉珠峰、可可西里无人区、千里羌塘大草原、三江源风光等高原名胜。
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青海新闻网讯　多年冻土是建设青藏铁路的头号难题，开工之前，许多国外专家认为建设青藏铁路“几乎不可能”。经过科技创新，青藏铁路建设者成功解决了青藏高原冻土区施工难题，并向世人证明中国迈入世界高原铁路建设的先进行列。　　全长1956公里的青藏铁路，平均海拔4000米以上的地段达960公里，穿越550公里的多年冻土地区。冻土在冻结状态下体积膨胀，到夏季冻土融化体积又缩小。在这两种现象的反复作用下，道路或房屋的基底就会出现破裂或者塌陷。 　全世界在高原多年冻土区修筑铁路已有百年以上历史，但已建成的多年冻土区铁路病害率很高，行车时速只有60－70公里。运营近百年的西伯利亚铁路，其1996年调查的病害率高达45%。　　青藏铁路建设总指挥部专家咨询组组长张鲁新教授说，冻土问题是世界性难题，世界上几个冻土大国俄罗斯、美国、加拿大等，都在为解决冻土难题进行不懈努力。中国在冻土研究方面起步较晚，但通过青藏公路、兰西拉（兰州－西宁－拉萨）光缆、格拉（格尔木－拉萨）输油管道、青藏铁路等重大工程的建设实践，我国的冻土研究已处于世界领先水平。
在青藏铁路建设中，我国专家在世界上首次提出“主动降温、冷却地基、保护冻土”的青藏铁路工程设计原则，创造性地采取了片石气冷、碎石护坡、以桥代路、热棒降温等相应对策解决冻土施工难题，目前这些工程都经受住了两年以上融冻期的考验。

　俄罗斯铁道运输勘察设计院著名冻土专家瓦连金博士说：“青藏铁路采取保护冻土的设计原则是完全正确的，主要工程措施可靠，能够保证安全稳定。”考察过青藏铁路后，美国俄勒冈州立大学著名冻土专家T·文森教授说：“青藏铁路是二十一世纪工程建设领域最伟大的成就之一。”　　青藏铁路冻土工程技术的创新和突破，为建设世界一流高原铁路提供了保证。建成后的青藏铁路冻土地段，火车时速将达到100公里，这是目前火车在世界冻土铁路上的最高时速。

青海新闻网讯　多年冻土是建设青藏铁路的头号难题，开工之前，许多国外专家认为建设青藏铁路“几乎不可能”。经过科技创新，青藏铁路建设者成功解决了青藏高原冻土区施工难题，并向世人证明中国迈入世界高原铁路建设的先进行列。　　全长1956公里的青藏铁路，平均海拔4000米以上的地段达960公里，穿越550公里的多年冻土地区。冻土在冻结状态下体积膨胀，到夏季冻土融化体积又缩小。在这两种现象的反复作用下，道路或房屋的基底就会出现破裂或者塌陷。 　全世界在高原多年冻土区修筑铁路已有百年以上历史，但已建成的多年冻土区铁路病害率很高，行车时速只有60－70公里。运营近百年的西伯利亚铁路，其1996年调查的病害率高达45%。　　青藏铁路建设总指挥部专家咨询组组长张鲁新教授说，冻土问题是世界性难题，世界上几个冻土大国俄罗斯、美国、加拿大等，都在为解决冻土难题进行不懈努力。中国在冻土研究方面起步较晚，但通过青藏公路、兰西拉（兰州－西宁－拉萨）光缆、格拉（格尔木－拉萨）输油管道、青藏铁路等重大工程的建设实践，我国的冻土研究已处于世界领先水平。
在青藏铁路建设中，我国专家在世界上首次提出“主动降温、冷却地基、保护冻土”的青藏铁路工程设计原则，创造性地采取了片石气冷、碎石护坡、以桥代路、热棒降温等相应对策解决冻土施工难题，目前这些工程都经受住了两年以上融冻期的考验。

　俄罗斯铁道运输勘察设计院著名冻土专家瓦连金博士说：“青藏铁路采取保护冻土的设计原则是完全正确的，主要工程措施可靠，能够保证安全稳定。”考察过青藏铁路后，美国俄勒冈州立大学著名冻土专家T·文森教授说：“青藏铁路是二十一世纪工程建设领域最伟大的成就之一。”　　青藏铁路冻土工程技术的创新和突破，为建设世界一流高原铁路提供了保证。建成后的青藏铁路冻土地段，火车时速将达到100公里，这是目前火车在世界冻土铁路上的最高时速。

nineth 你知道什么叫环保 吗 青藏铁路最重要的是环保 你怎么都不知道呀 亏你还是中国人 而且中国级别最小的站 都有 站牌 都是有统一 规定的！ 还有那个地方都是无人区 为什么设一个站 就是为了 以后旅游！还有你对火车机车 的了解简直是白痴 ！现在澳大利亚在跑的机车 都是这个的 上代产品！引擎不是不能自造 中国造的引擎在西藏照样 跑的很好！
大家说话客气点吧,你不是已经解释得很好吗!

May you please combine all your railway threads together?

軌道車的引擎不能自造, 要用外國的, 恥辱. 路牌用水泥板造, 造非常粗糙, 新的就被碰撞到崩崩爛爛, 難看. 為什麼不用金屬或不锈鋼材料做路牌或路標呢? 如果用金屬或不锈鋼材料成本高, 一定要用水泥來降低成本, 為什麼不先做一個金屬模來製造平滑標準水泥板模塊呢? 如此簡單的美觀的改進, 好像在中國就沒人去想.
金属牌子好象不那么耐久吧，这个是在户外的，上面没有遮挡的，是出站的指示牌，在站里面的牌子是金属的，跟随站的改造不断更换。中国有很多这样的水泥牌子都是50~60年代造的，现在都还很好。

軌道車的引擎不能自造, 要用外國的, 恥辱.
其实能修这条铁路就不错了，西藏是世界最高的地方，安全很重要。况且中国以前也没有制造高原火车的经验，不像铁路，至少在五六十年代还修过两条进藏公路，对高原道路还是有经验的。火车这次保证安全质量，以后逐步学习。

新华网的报道：
青藏铁路票价确定 北京西至拉萨硬座389元 (http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2006-06/26/content_4751402.htm)

哎哟，我的屁股啊！:D

如果 妳的屁股很重要 建議 妳 買 卧铺

亲爱的中国同胞在青藏铁路即将开通之际问大家一个问题你们将来或者现在会在拉萨购置房地产吗？
拉萨是日光城 阳光充足 空气清新 虽然开始会有高原反应 不过很快就能适应
现在 拉萨 汉人 快多过藏人了 语言没问题！
拉萨购置房地产 未来升值空间巨大！西藏世界最后的天堂 是不是也一样吸引你去居住 去移民！

不去. :D

so far away

已经有很多四川贵州人在西藏做生意了，铁路开通后，去的人只会更多，西藏现在藏民也就是200万左右

自吹自擂.

自吹自擂.
主要是这种文章太有＂文革体＂了，老是搬＂外国人说如何不可能，然后我们完成了，证明中国如何如何＂，以前看文革时期的＂十万个为什么＂就老是这样，还夹杂语录，比如＂资产阶级的学者把XX吹嘘得神乎其神，高深莫测，在毛泽东思想的指导下，某某工厂的工人们发扬＂一不怕苦，二不怕死＇的精神，大干特干，仅用了XX天就突破这一难关，使我国的在XX方面获得重大突破，这是毛泽东思想在生产领域的重大胜利＂．

China sets timetable for early running of Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Xinhua's China Economic Information Service

BEIJING, June 27 (CEIS)-- Departing from Beijing's West Railway Station at 21:30, train T27/8 will arrive in Lhasa in Tibet at 20:58 on the third day, the 4,064-kilometer trip taking 47 hours and 28 minutes, said sources on June 26.

China has set the timetables for the first three pairs of trains from five cities to Lhasa along the world's highest Qinghai-Tibet railway which is due to open for trial operations on July 1.

Among the three pairs of train routes, there are a pair of express trains to run from Beijing to Lhasa, four pairs of express trains between Chengdu (Chongqing) and Lhasa, and two pairs of fast trains between Xining (Lanzhou) and Lhasa.

The T27/8 train, departing from Beijing's West Railway Station to Lhasa, the 4,064-kilometer trip will pass through six cities, including Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and Nagqu township.

The return trip from Lhasa to Beijing is scheduled to take 32 minutes longer than the outbound trip.

The trip from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Lhasa, with a length of 3,360 kilometers, will take about 48 hours and 10 minutes by the trains T22/23, while the return journey by the train T24/1 will be 48 hours 50 minutes. This train will pass Guangyuan, Baoji, then link to Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and Nagqu township before it reaches Lhasa. The 3,654-kilometer trip from Chongqing to Lhasa will have eight stops before it arrives in Lhasa after 47 hours and eight minutes. While the trip from Lhasa to Chongqing will take 48 hours and 50 minutes.

Journey from Lanzhou to Lhasa by the train K917/8 will take only 29 hours and 45 minutes to travel 2,188-kilometers.

The journey from Xining in Qinghai province to Lhasa, which is 1, 972 kilometers, will be 26 hours and 23 minutes.

Ticket prices for the above-mentioned train routes have also been set.

The world's highest railway, extends 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa. Some 960 kilometers of its tracks are 4,000 meters above sea level and the highest point is 5,072 meters, at least 200 meters higher than the Peruvian railway in the Andes, which was formerly the world's highest altitude railway.

Ticket prices set for five cities to Lhasa along Qinghai-Tibet railway
Xinhua's China Economic Information Service

BEIJING, June 26 (CEIS)-- It's expected to cost less then 50 U.S dollars to travel from Beijing to Lhasa on the new Qinghai-Tibet railway - a journey of more than 4,000 kilometers, said sources in Beijing on June 26.

In China, three types of train tickets are available at differing prices. The basic coach ticket, called a hard seat will sell for 389 yuan (48.6 U.S. dollars) from Beijing to Lhasa, while the price for hard sleeper or bunk will cost 813 yuan (101.6 dollars), and the price for a shared compartment or soft sleeper is 1,262 yuan (157.75 dollars).

For the 3,360-kilometer trip between Chengdu, provincial capital of southwest China's Chengdu province, and Lhasa, the hard seat price is 331 yuan (41.38 dollars), the hard sleeper price is 712 yuan (89 dollars), and the cost of a soft sleeper is 1,104 yuan (138 dollars).

For the trip between the southwest-located Chongqing, one of China's four municipalities, and Lhasa, a hard seat ticket for the 3, 654-kilometer journey is 355 yuan (44.38 dollars), while the price for hard sleeper is 754 yuan (94.25 dollars), while a soft sleeper will cost 1,168 yuan (146 dollars).

Ticket prices from Lanzhou in northwest China to Lhasa, a trip of 2,188-kilometers, are: hard seat 242 yuan (30.25 dollars), hard sleeper 552 yuan (69 dollars), and soft sleeper price 854 yuan (106. 25 dollars).

From Qinghai's provincial capital Xi'ning to Lhasa, which is 1, 972 kilometers, the hard seat price is 226 yuan (28.25 dollars), the hard sleeper price is 523 yuan (65.38 dollars), and the soft sleeper price is 810 yuan (101.25 dollars).

The Qinghai-Tibet railway is due to begin trial operations on July 1.

The world's highest railway, extends 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa. Some 960 kilometers of its tracks are located 4,000 meters above sea level and the highest point is 5,072 meters, at least 200 meters higher than the Peruvian railway in the Andes, which was formerly the world's highest altitude railway.

i saw some video of this on cctv, but none of it looks as other worldly as some of the pictures ive seen here, amazing accomplishment!

昨晚11时30分，北京西站售票大厅，青藏列车售票专口前，一名旅客打着哈欠等待窗口开始售票。青藏铁路客票今日上午开始发售。新京报记者倪华初摄

【提醒】６种情况不宜进藏

■各种器质性心脏病、显著心率失常或静息心率大于１００次／分、高血压２期以上、各种血液病和脑血管病；

■慢性呼吸道疾病、中度以上阻塞性肺疾病；

■糖尿病未控制、癔病、癫病和精神分裂症；

■现患重症感冒、上呼吸道感染、体温在３８度以上或者体温在３８度以下的呼吸道症状明显者；

■曾确诊患过高原肺水肿、高原脑水肿、高原心脏病及高原红细胞增长症状者；

■高危孕妇。（记者李剑英）

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昨晚9时30分，西宁火车站，市民提前12小时排队购买7月1日从西宁前往拉萨的首发列车车票。新京报记者王申摄
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青藏铁路车票发售计划

６月２８日 发售７月１日首趟北京开往拉萨的火车票（只发售至拉萨终到站车票）

６月２９日 发售７月２日到７月４日的火车票

６月３０日 发售７月５日至７月８日的火车票

７月１日 发售７月９日及以后预售期为１０天的火车票

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无健康登记卡将不能上车

为防止因旅客身体条件不适应高原反应，青藏列车售票窗口售票时将免费为旅客提供《旅客健康登记卡》，旅客在上车时需持有效乘车凭证和《旅客健康登记卡》方能进站上车。

公告提示旅客在进入高原前阅读“高原旅客提示”，当旅客了解提示内容后并确定身体具备高原旅行的条件时，要按照规定内容逐项如实填写《旅客健康登记卡》。
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西站至拉萨列车停靠７次

从北京西站开往拉萨的特快列车，行驶全程共停靠７次。

记者在北京西站至拉萨的列车开行安排的公告上看到，７月１日火车从西站开行后，将分别在石家庄、西安、兰州、西宁、格尔木、那曲和拉萨火车站停靠。

另外，“高原旅客提示”公告希望进藏的旅客保护高原生态环境。

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从今天开始，北京西站售票大厅将开设３个专售窗口，发售北京开往拉萨的火车票。

昨天晚上８时３０分，北京西站的售票大厅主显示屏上连续发布了４个关于北京西站至拉萨列车的公告。包括高原旅客提示、青藏列车旅客公告、青藏列车火车票发售公告和北京西站至拉萨的列车开行安排。

设３个青藏列车售票窗口

昨天晚上８时４０分，记者在西站东侧的大售票厅看到，该售票厅的１号、２号和３号窗口已经关闭，在３个窗口上面分别打出“青藏列车专口”的字幕。从今天开始，这３个窗口将担负起专门为到西藏旅客提供售票服务的任务，不销售其他路线火车票。

[图]"世纪天路"开通在即 十万浙商提前布局青藏
www.zjol.com.cn　 2006年06月28日　07:09:07 　浙江在线新闻网站

　　浙江制造有望大规模入藏

　　而同样看好浙江产品，以及西藏得天独厚的战略地位，甘肃人何力超则充当起了浙江产品与西藏市场对接过程的“红娘”。

　　“浙江的产品很有市场，如义乌的小商品、温州的打火机和皮鞋等”。何力超在西藏投下1.4亿元的南亚国际商贸城目前正在建设中，预计年底投入使用。商贸城共能容纳2000左右的商户，而他们为浙江产品预留了近70%的铺位。

　　早年在甘肃做生意的时候，何力超就与在甘肃经商的浙江商人结下了深厚的情缘，在投建商贸城时，何力超与甘肃温州商会达成共识，将共同引入温州商户。

　　“建立一个大型商贸城，货运成本是首选的考虑因素，西藏铁路通车后，运输已经不是问题了。”青藏铁路开通后，货运压力解决了，而即将于7月16日开通的中印陆路通商，也让西藏成为了面向南亚市场的窗口，也成为整个亚洲的中心地带。

　　同时，林敏、干祥土等5个温州人投资7500万元的拉萨温州商贸城将在10月份开张，摊位有1500个，“80%以上是留给浙江产品的。”温州商人干祥土告诉记者。

　　这意味着，年内陆续开张的拉萨两座大型商贸城将引进2000多户浙江商户。从服装、小商品到家电，大型商贸城的建成已经为浙江制造进入青藏高原搭建了一个很好的市场平台。

　　十万浙商淘金青藏高原

　　“浙江的商人都很聪明。我很看好浙江商人。”和西藏自治区工商联、招商局相关负责人聊起浙江人，他们都提高了语调这样赞叹，毫不掩饰他们对浙江人的欣赏。

　　据浙江省委政策研究室去年公布的统计数据，目前在西藏投资的浙江商人至少有2万人。而据青海浙江企业联合会主任何玉贵介绍，在青海投资的浙商人数在8万左右，是青海的“投资第一大户”。

　　拉萨城关区招商局局长告诉记者，为了能够吸引更多的浙商前来投资，同时留住目前在藏的浙江商人，他们特别推出了一系列的优惠待遇，包括为前来商贸城开店落户的浙商提供吃住配套设施，解决子女入学问题等。

　　西藏自治区招商局负责人介绍，西藏可以投资的项目很多，结合西藏特色产业发展规划，囊括了旅游、藏医药、矿产资源以及高原生物产业和绿色饮(食)品、民族手工业等相关产业有关的重大项目。

　　将于7月8日到12日在西宁市举行的青洽会将为有意走进青藏高原的浙江商人提供新的机遇。青海经协办近来都在忙青洽会，给包括浙商在内的外省商人搭桥。当记者拨通项目招商组负责人叶成远的电话时，他正在忙着为青洽会做前期的准备工作，“目前正在统计已经有意向在青洽会上签约的项目。”叶成远急促地说完，又忙开了。据叶成远介绍，浙商签约项目还不少，但他不肯透漏具体情况。

“已经有近10位浙江企业家来了，他们都是来找项目的。”前天，青海浙江企业联合会主任何玉贵电话中对记者说，他正在格尔木参加为期3天的柴达木循环经济试验区项目推介会。

　　青藏铁路正式开通进入了最后的倒计时，当青藏高原上的居民们翘首以盼，憧憬着随之而来的新生活时，浙江的商人们悄悄走进那片热土，搜寻着新的商机。

　　浙商开掘青藏新商机

　　温州珠宝商人林敏是在朋友的介绍下走进西藏的。“我去年底去考察了两次，发现这里的商机多，而竞争又不像东部那样激烈。”一年前林敏在西藏朋友的“鼓动”下开始关注起西藏来。现在他联合干祥土等4个温州人，共同在拉萨投资了一座温州商贸城，而这对林敏来说，仅仅是走进西藏的开始。考察西藏投资环境的过程中，林敏对西藏丰富的矿藏资源流露出了浓厚的兴趣。“我知道的就有几家小型的温州矿厂在动工了，但是大型的投资还没有，可以说，西藏的矿藏还基本上还没被开发过。”为以后的投资备课，林敏对西藏的相关矿产投资政策也已经明了于心，短短的时间里俨然成为了西藏通。

　　和林敏有着同样想法的浙商并不少，温州人徐林义、徐林强兄弟两个也看到了青藏铁路开通带来的大商机。目前，他们已在西宁投资了两个百货商场。

　　浙江玻璃股份有限公司是最早进入青藏高原的浙江民企之一。他们相中了青海丰富的碱资源，早在2003年就成立了青海碱业公司，专门从石灰石和盐中提炼纯碱，目前已投下近16亿元，建成一期工程，于去年4月份正式投产。

　　“我们的规划共三期工程，投入70多亿元资金。”青海碱业公司运输部门的吴兆瑞告诉记者，“只等着最后一关环境评估书批下来，我们投资14亿的二期工程也将在七八月份投产。”

　　除了矿产资源、百货领域，记者从青海、西藏等地的招商局了解到，近段时间前往青藏铁路沿线考察的浙江商人中，有意向的投资，还涉及服装、餐饮、酒店业等领域。
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总投资拟达百亿 青藏铁路还将续建三条支线铁路
据西藏自治区官员日前透露，青藏铁路建成后，还将投资数百亿元人民币，以拉萨火车站为中心向外辐射，再兴建三条支线铁路。

这三条铁路是：拉萨至林芝、拉萨至日喀则、日喀则至亚东三条青藏铁路支线，力争十年内全部建成通车。届时，青藏铁路将和这三条支线形成一个大大的Y字形，总长度将达到二千多公里。

据了解，西藏亚东县也将建成一个与南亚次大陆接壤的中国西南边陲最大的自由贸易区。此外，敦煌铁路与青藏铁路的对接已纳入日程，甘肃省敦煌市的铁路东起兰新铁路柳沟站，西至敦煌市文化路口，全长约一百六十五公里，铁路已于去年三月破土动工，敦煌铁路建成后，还将继续建设延伸至青海省格尔木，最终实现与青藏铁路的对接

China to extend Tibetan railway to Indian border: report

BEIJING, June 28, 2006 (AFP) - With the new Qinghai-Tibet railway to Lhasa going into service on July 1, China unveiled plans Wednesday for extending the national rail network to the border with India, state media reported.

Within the next 10 years, China hoped to build a railway line to the Tibetan town of Chomo near a Himalayan border pass to the Indian state of Sikkim, the China News Service (CNS) reported.

Up to 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion dollars) would be invested in building new railways in the Tibetan region in the coming 10 years, said the report, citing Tibetan officials.

The Qinghai-Tibet railway is the first railway to the Tibetan region and rises more than 5,000 metres (16,500 feet) above sea-level as it climbs up to the Tibetan plateau from Qinghai province to the north.

Opponents of the multi-billion dollar railway have long expressed fears that it will lead to increased numbers of Han Chinese moving into the Himalayan region, further eroding Tibet's Buddhist culture.

Tibet has been ruled by China since its troops "liberated" the region in 1950. Crackdowns on Tibetans clamouring for greater autonomy or independence from Beijing's rule are routine.

The planned railways included a line extending west from Lhasa to Shigatse and another line heading east from Lhasa along the Yarlung river to Nyingchi, CNS said.

The line to Chomo would extend from the Lhasa-Shigatse line, it said.

Shigatse is the monastic seat of the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's second most revered spiritual figure after the Dalai Lama.

The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following the failure of a Tibetan uprising and established his government-in-exile in Dharamsala.

Earlier this month, China and India agreed that on July 6 frontier trade through the Natha La border pass near Chomo would resume. The pass was closed 44 years ago following a brief border war between the two nations.

Natha La, part of the famed Silk Road to South Asia, is located 4,400 metres (14,520-feet) above sea level.

CNS said plans were also underway to turn the Chomo region into a free trade area in an effort to stimulate economic activity in the Himalayan region.

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Excellent! This is what it should be. :)

isnt the indian rail line that goes to tibet on of the worlds worst and most unsafe?

im sure the chinese government can manage to do it better, the quality of the tracks and trains are light years of what i have seen of the indian ones

Relations between China and India are only starting to warm recently, and I don't think there is a lot of trade activity happening by rail between the two countries. In fact, is there even regular rail service between China and India? From what that article was saying, there isn't even a line to the border.

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这个车头好可爱 哈哈哈哈

庆祝青藏铁路的开通，大家都来这个帖子发表自己的看法！有图的贴图，有话的说话，有视频的传地址！谢谢大家了！

这个车头好可爱 哈哈哈哈
那个车头有当年<变形金刚>擎天柱的感觉.

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軌道車的引擎不能自造, 要用外國的, 恥辱. 路牌用水泥板造, 造非常粗糙, 新的就被碰撞到崩崩爛爛, 難看. 為什麼不用金屬或不锈鋼材料做路牌或路標呢? 如果用金屬或不锈鋼材料成本高, 一定要用水泥來降低成本, 為什麼不先做一個金屬模來製造平滑標準水泥板模塊呢? 如此簡單的美觀的改進, 好像在中國就沒人去想.
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There is more than one localmotive, only one of them is imported from USA. As for the plate, if it is metal, it will be stolen before the next sunrise. Use your brain next time.

China's Tibet railway ready to go, with sealed cars and refrigerated tracks
By ALEXA OLESEN
30 June 2006

BEIJING (AP) - China unveils an engineering marvel this weekend -- a railway to Tibet that features high-tech systems to stabilize tracks over permafrost and oxygen-enriched cabins to help riders cope with high altitudes.

Yet, as with so much else in China's often harsh 56-year rule over Tibet, the 1,140-kilometer-long (710-mile-long) railway to the Tibetan capital has drawn controversy, even before the first train's departure Saturday.

Critics, including Tibetans loyal to the exiled Dalai Lama, say the US$4.2 billion (euro3.35 billion) railway is part of a campaign by Beijing to crush Tibetan culture by encouraging an influx of Han Chinese, China's majority ethnic group.

Environmentalists worry about the railway's impact on Tibet's highlands.

The train "will mean more environmental destruction for Tibet, more unemployment for Tibetans and of course our culture will be devastated," said Ngawang Woeber, a member of Gu Chu Sum, an India-based support group for former Tibetan political prisoners.

Pro-independence groups planned to wear black armbands in protest and demonstrate outside Chinese embassies Saturday, a campaign they call "Reject the Railway."

Railway official Zhu Zhensheng said the project will boost Tibet's economy and help people learn about its unique culture. Zhu said few Tibetans will work on the train at first, though "we hope to increase those opportunities."

On Friday, three foreign protesters were detained in Beijing after holding a brief demonstration at the capital's main train station.

The women from the United States, Canada and Britain unfurled a banner that read in English, "China's Tibet Railway, Designed to Destroy," before two police officers escorted them away to a police post next to the station. They were released after about three hours of questioning, one of the protesters said.

Railway Ministry officials on Thursday previewed the new rail line from the city of Golmud to Tibet's capital, Lhasa, saying it's the world's highest, taking 5,000-meter (16,500-foot) passes at 100 kph (60 mph).

The line -- sometimes called the "Sky Train" -- is a "major achievement" that will "hugely boost local development and benefit the local people," said Zhu, vice director of the Railway Ministry's Tibetan Railway Office.

When construction on the line was completed last year, Chinese President Hu Jintao called it an "unprecedented triumph."

The railway is projected to help double tourism revenues by 2010 and reduce transport costs for goods by 75 percent, the government's Xinhua News Agency said.

Chinese officials have thought for decades about building the Tibet railway. China's rail system reached Golmud in Qinghai province, nearly 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) from Beijing, by 1984. But railway officials said it was too difficult to extend the line to Tibet due to huge swaths of permafrost and extreme temperatures.

The plan was resurrected in 2001. Engineers determined they could build elevated bridges over the most unstable permafrost. In other places, they could sink pipes with cooling elements into the ground to stabilize track embankments, ensuring they stayed frozen.

"It's kind of like non-electric refrigeration," Zhu said.

The train cars, manufactured by Canada's Bombardier Inc., have double-pane windows with ultraviolet filters to protect passengers from the sun's glare, and carefully regulated oxygen levels in all classes.

The trip from Beijing to Lhasa will take 48 hours; officials have yet to decide if there will be daily trains.

Though the technology is new, the strategy of using trains and commerce to tamp down restive ethnic groups in China is not. Campaigns to integrate Inner Mongolia and the Muslim Xinjiang region in the far west were aided by rail links that ferried in millions of Chinese -- sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not -- to firm up Beijing's control.

Despite the rosy economic forecasts and dire predictions of Chinese control, the train is unlikely to touch off social disaster or commercial windfall, said Andrew Fischer, an economics researcher at the London School of Economics.

Fischer said that daily flights and overland links have given Chinese interested in Tibet a way to migrate for decades, that tourism is likely to stabilize at only slightly higher than the current rates, and that exploiting Tibet's natural reserves will remain prohibitively expensive.

The main reason for the project is symbolic, he said: "It's the last frontier they have been dreaming of for the last century."

For now, the Dalai Lama, in exile since 1959 but still the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, is taking a wait-and-see attitude.

"The railway line itself is not a cause of concern for the Tibetan people," said Thupten Samphel, spokesman for the Dalai Lama's government in exile. "How it will be used is the main concern."

so from you chines guys point of view, how will the tibet region and the himalaya develop on the long run?

If they really extend the rail to india, it would mean, that the most time saving variant of sending goods from china to india and the other way would be via the tibet rail, which would bring tibet from the position at the end of the world right into the middle between two booming economies of two countries each having more than 1 billion people !!!!!

The econmic chances for lhasa would be giant ..just unbelievable...

Imagine just 10% of the container transport between india and china not going on the sea-way by ship, but over the tibet rail would bring lhasa to one of the most important freight hubs of the world?????

How do you people from china evaluate this situation?

heres a map that shows my thought:

Lhasa is situated right in the middle between booming india and the booming mega cities in chinas densest and most industrailized east coast.

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Look, how happy those tibetans are ! I wish the railway will help them out of poverty earilier. :cheers1:

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Rock!
I was really excited when I was watching the live through Phoenix channel.

"Use your brain next time."

若是金屬版牌, 若是第二天就被人偷了, 很光彩呀, 你也很有腦呀, 呵呵~~

I wish too. Hope the local economy start to soar due to the railroad.
I love Tibet!

Rock!
I was really excited when I was watching the live through Phoenix channel.
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CCTV NEWS LIVE AM7：00---PM23：00

若是金屬版牌, 若是第二天就被人偷了, 很光彩呀, 你也很有腦呀, 呵呵~~
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偷是不会的 你可以放心 因为那里是无人区 就连火车站都是无人职守的 全部靠卫星监控的 在那个地方如果有人也肯定冻死了 ！

CCTV NEWS LIVE AM7：00---PM23：00
What does that mean?
I am in US and I prefer phoenix channel using PPstream.

“火车终于来了，我们今天就像过年一样开心。”今年５２岁的藏族牧民布巴里感慨地说。

布巴里是青海省格尔木市唐古拉山镇藏族二村的牧民，家住海拔５０００多米的风火山下。目前世界上海拔最高的铁路隧道——风火山隧道距他家只有１０多公里路程。

１日下午１４时４０分，首列“青１”次进藏旅客列车就开到了布巴里所在的牧业点。早已等候在铁路边的布巴里一家身着民族盛装，手捧洁白的哈达，向隆隆而过的火车表达着他们的祝福。

“我还不到２０岁的时候，就看见一些人在我们这里搞测量，说是国家要修建青藏铁路，这一等就是３０多年啊！”说起火车，布巴里神采飞扬。

“５年前，我看到各种大型机械来到风火山下，几千人的队伍也来了。听说要在山上打一个能走火车的洞，真是不敢相信，就天天跑去看。”

交谈中得知，布巴里一家养了１６００多只牛羊。几年前铁路动工的消息传到村子里时，布巴里和牧民们的心里反而有些害怕。布巴里所在的村子处于青藏公路和青藏铁路之间，要是铁路修好了，不就挡住了牛羊走的路吗？于是，布巴里和村民们就联名写信向建设单位反映这个问题，没想到他们的担心是多余的，铁路修建时专门留出了通道，让牲畜很方便地通行。

“修这么大的工程，国家没有忘记我们藏族牧民，真让人高兴啊。”布巴里说。

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在新中国成立后的５０多年里，实现了北京至拉萨的“通汽车、通飞机和通火车”的梦想，历史将会铭记这三个历史的瞬间：

——１９５４年１２月２５日，青藏、康藏两条公路正式通车拉萨。

——１９５６年５月２６日，北京至拉萨的航线试航成功。

——２００６年７月１日，青藏铁路全线通车，火车由北京驶往拉萨。



青藏铁路建设对西藏经济社会的发展将产生深刻的影响，从而为西藏社会走向现代文明创造条件。”西藏自治区社会科学院经济战略研究所所长王太福说。

王太福认为，铁路延伸到西藏，有助于提高西藏自治区的社会发展指数，促进藏族与其他民族的经济文化交流，有助于向全国各族人民弘扬西藏的优秀文化，客观上保护了藏族优秀的传统文化；此外，铁路通达能力本身就标志着地区的社会发展水平，由铁路的功能所连带的社会效应深刻地影响着当地的社会发展指数。

西藏自治区党委政策研究室主任孙勇说，青藏铁路通车对推进西藏现代文明产生划时代的影响，特别是带动西藏特色产业的开发，促进当地旅游业、民族手工业、农畜产品加工业等快速发展，当地群众将在这些现代物质文明成果中享受到更多的实惠。

孙勇认为，铁路通车还有利于西藏优秀的传统文化走出大山，也有利于吸收各民族优秀文化，从而实现文化产业百花齐放。

“青藏铁路的通车让更多的藏族群众有机会享受现代文明的果实。”西藏大学藏族教授图登克珠说。

青藏、川藏公路第一次同时穿越青藏高原时，打破了西藏的“封闭”；格（尔木）－拉（萨）输油管道再次穿越青藏高原，为西藏的发展提供了“粮草”；兰（州）－西（宁）－拉（萨）光缆的兴建，为西藏各族人民装上了“千里眼”和“顺风耳”；而青藏铁路的通车，成为西藏

家住拉萨火车站附近、拉萨市堆龙德庆县柳吾乡的农民旺扎，希望能在车站附近开一家自己的餐馆。

而在过去５年的时间，旺扎花了９万多元购买的东风牌翻斗车在拉萨火车站建设工地上跑运输，每天纯收入在４００元左右。他没想到自己的生活会因为青藏铁路的建设发生这么大的变化。５年前，他还为了那仅有的１５亩地不知疲倦地劳作，而如今，旺扎已经成了乡里远近闻名的小康之家。

柳吾乡柳吾村４３０多户中有６０多户人家购买了汽车，在青藏铁路各个建设工地上跑运输。

藏族老阿妈桑姆筹划着青藏铁路开通后，与几个朋友一起去内地旅游。这位企业退休员工的一席话代表了许多藏族老百姓的心声：坐汽车太累，坐飞机又太贵，去内地旅游对我们来说基本上属于空想。她说，但是铁路开通后就不一样了，会有越来越多的人去内地旅游。

当然，铁路开通，除了方便旅游者外，还会给像强巴遵珠这样精明的生意人带来更大的商机。生产藏纸和藏族传统服饰的强巴遵珠的工厂一直受困于不便的运输和高昂的运费。他说：“铁路开通后，运输成本肯定会降低，我打算将更多西藏传统的手工艺品销售到内地和海外，让西藏传统文化走得更远。”

西藏老百姓对铁路效应短期内最大的期待莫过于降低物价。西藏的商家常常会这样解释：这种商品西藏生产不了，全部是从内地运进来的，飞机和汽车的运费非常高。

青藏铁路开通后，西藏货物运输方式将发生重大变化，专家预计７５％的货运量将由铁路承担，“这样，将会大大降低进出藏物资运输成本，从而刺激西藏商品零售价和物价总水平的下降，减少西藏居民的消费支出，提高实际生活水平。”西藏自治区社科院经济研究专家王太福说。

西藏社科院民族研究所所长巴桑旺堆说，青藏铁路将西藏与全国统一的大市场紧紧连接在一起，从而大大降低了进藏物资的运输成本，其建成通车后直接受益者是西藏老百姓。（

西藏自治区主席：青藏铁路将为农牧民提供更多就业机会
）“青藏铁路将给西藏农牧民带来更多就业机会。”西藏自治区主席向巴平措近日在接受新华社记者专访时分析说，青藏铁路的通车无疑将使西藏经济发展迈上一个新台阶，各行各业的繁荣将扩大劳动力需求，给当地农牧民带来更多的就业机会和增收渠道，从而惠泽当地百姓，造福一方。

“随着经济社会的发展，特别是青藏铁路开通，西藏将会涌现更多的服务行业，这将进一步拓宽当地群众就业门路、提供更多的就业岗位。”向巴平措说，西藏将进一步提升当地群众的劳动技能，如加强农牧民和城镇下岗失业人员的劳动技能培训。

据介绍，西藏每年投入上千万元用于劳动力培训，今年更是投入４０００万元，培训的内容涉及工程建设、电站管理、广播电视、特色产业等领域。

向巴平措认为，铁路每吨公里０.１２元的低廉运价还将改变西藏高物价现状。

青藏铁路的通车还将提升西藏的优势产业，间接增加当地农牧民群众收入。向巴平措认为，长期以来西藏经济社会发展的相对滞后，主要源于封闭，而落后的交通条件又是造成封闭的重要原因。“过去由于交通条件落后，造成西藏的牦牛、青稞、油菜等特色农牧业上不了档次，形不成规模。”青藏铁路将使西藏拥有大运能全天候的运输通道，这为西藏旅游和其他优势产业的发展提供了保障。向巴平措说：“专家分析认为，如果没有铁路的修建，西藏的这些优势资源就难以形成规模和效益。”

“青藏铁路是为造福我们家乡人民修建的，能成为西藏第一代铁路职工，是我最大的荣耀！”正在青藏铁路格尔木车站进行上岗前实习的藏族小伙子普布次仁如是说。

今年26岁的普布次仁，2005年毕业于兰州交通大学，但他没有想到自己会成为一名铁路职工，而且在青藏铁路线上工作。

然而，4年前普布次仁中学毕业报考交通院校时，曾遭到父母和亲戚朋友的反对，“他们认为西藏交通不发达，这个专业‘不吃香’，毕业后回西藏工作的希望也比较渺茫。不过，当他们知道我被分配到青藏铁路上工作的时候，所有认识我的人都为我高兴。”

6月中旬，记者在格尔木车站见到普布次仁时，他的实习进入最紧张的关头，因为7月1日首列进藏客车就要从他们这里出发。“我做梦都在盼望着那一天快点到来”。现在他每天早上8点30分就要到货站营业厅点名报到，随后跟着师傅学习货运装卸常识，再到货场练习微机操作，下午他还要去货运营业大厅熟悉集装箱缴费业务。

尽管“连轴转”的实习生活比较劳累，但是普布次仁依然很快活，他兴奋地迈着大步：“从现在开始我就应该适应快节奏的生活，火车进藏以后，铁轮的飞速运转也将带动西藏经济社会快速发展，以前西藏人闲适的生活节奏恐怕就要成为历史了。”

自2001年青藏铁路开工建设以来，有关部门便有组织、有计划地为西藏培养藏族铁路工人，先后在西南交通大学、兰州交通大学、武汉铁路运输学院等专业院校招收西藏生源500多人。目前，他们中的部分毕业生已陆续走上工作岗位，成为西藏第一代铁路职工。

刚刚被分配到拉萨火车站从事轨道检修工作的平措云丹，休息的空隙与旁边几个孩子玩了起来。他告诉小朋友，火车来之前能在铁轨上听到动静。小朋友们兴奋地学着他的样子一字儿排开，把耳朵贴在铁轨上。“现在你们可以这样听听，等再过几天火车通了以后，你们一定得注意，火车可不像汽车那样容易刹车，要离得远远的，记住没有？”平措云丹不失时机地讲开了安全注意事项，几个小朋友吃惊地听着，流露出崇拜的眼神。

今年23岁的次仁曲珍，一身严肃的“路服”掩饰不住她调皮、喜悦的神情。警帽后面的马尾辫甩来甩去，蹦蹦跳跳领着记者前去她所在的办公室———青藏铁路建设拉萨指挥部公安处。

她指着墙上自己两年前画的“火车进藏图”：“你们看，雪山、草原、奔驰的‘钢铁巨龙’，还有蓝天、白云和牛羊，多么漂亮的风景！我的想像马上就要变成现实了！”

次仁曲珍的爷爷是西藏自治区第一代公路交通系统干部，表姑是第一代藏族“空姐”，“现在我又是第一代藏族铁路职工，同学朋友们都非常羡慕我，你说我能不自豪吗？”次仁曲珍说，铁路职工在西藏是个新兴热门工作，自己一定会珍惜机会，干出名堂。她甚至还想到更远的事———今后自己如果生个儿子就让他当火车司机，若是女儿就当列车员。

成为西藏第一代藏族铁路职工是多么的令人自豪———采访中，他们洋溢着的这种饱满情绪深深感染着记者。近了！离客车进藏的最后时刻越来越近了！他们都在各自的岗位上，紧张地做着最后的准备。

）“快走，快走，看火车去！”７月１日上午，藏北那曲镇群众纷纷涌向６公里外的青藏铁路那曲火车站，等待首列进出藏客车的到来。

北京时间上午１１点，记者从那曲镇出发赶往火车站途中，三五行人脚步匆匆，沿青藏公路源源不断地涌向镇子以南的火车站。老人们大多穿上了五颜六色的崭新藏袍，哈巴狗欢跳在主人前面，主人们手捻佛珠谈笑着，有的还哼着小曲；年轻人打闹着，一路欢歌一路笑，不失时机地展示着他们时髦的新衣。

“马上就要看到火车了！”一位八九岁的小男孩，小跑着追撵大人脚步的同时，把玩着彩色气球。今天的藏北那曲重镇，一派盛大节日景象。一些先头到来的牧民群众盘坐在火车站四周的缓坡上，品着酥油茶、青稞酒，不停地张望火车站的情况。

车站正门前方草地上，还一字排了开长长的水果和小商品摊点，看样子生意还很红火。即将迎来从格尔木出发的“青１”次和从拉萨出发的“藏２”次客车的那曲火车站门前，挂着写有“藏北儿女载歌载舞，喜迎八方来客；雪域山河且欢且跃，笑纳四海同贺”的醒目红底黄字条幅。欢庆锣鼓表演队，正在紧张地准备着道具和舞台设备。高音喇叭传出的藏族民歌《天路》优美曲调，风一般地掠过广袤的草原：“那是一条神奇的天路，为藏家儿女送来吉祥……！”

中午１２点３０分左右，细雨骤停，几束阳光从云洞中射来，似舞台灯光一样打在了红白相间的那曲火车站，使得这个海拔４４８２米的高原车站凸显在连天碧草中，格外动人。一位准备敲击威风锣鼓的藏族大爷，整理着演出服，笑得满脸灿烂，久久合不拢嘴：“我今年６３岁了，终于等到火车到来的这一天了！”

“那曲”藏语意为“黑河”，穿镇而过的黑河是怒江上游，这里自古就是藏北高原重镇，唐蕃古道就在其境内。那曲地区总面积４３万平方公里，共有４０万人。青藏铁路穿越那曲境内有５１０多公里的路段。

５０多年前，解放军修筑青藏公路时，那曲镇只有１０多顶牧民帐篷和几十个驻军铁皮房，曾被人们称为“铁皮小镇”，如今镇子已发展为１２平方公里、３万多人口的现代化城镇。当地人冀望火车的到来，给这个高原城镇带来前所未有的发展机遇。（完）

PPstream CAN‘T WATCH TAIWAN’S TV！ I USE TVANTS！

地方环境恶劣，青藏铁路的信息化程度很高38个站台无人值守！
新华网青海格尔木6月19日电(记者邬焕庆、陈春园、顾玲)三道并行的铁轨静静地横卧在崭新的路基上，一栋大门紧锁的白色小平房伫立在500平方米站台的中央，高原的风从路边苍茫的大山吹来，飕飕地撼动着平房边高大的通讯铁塔……新路、西风、苍山，看守人在何方？

　　这是青藏铁路年轻的纳赤台站，是新建的青藏铁路“格(尔木)—拉(萨)段”向西藏






延伸的第一个新建较大车站，也是全段38个无人值守车站中的第一个大站。

　　纳赤台，藏语“晒佛的地方”，几年前这里只有苍山相伴、羊群嬉戏。2001年青藏铁路“格-拉”段从格尔木南山口开始建设，距离南山口60公里的纳赤台成为新建的第一个较大车站，1100公里新青藏铁路线上的42个新建车站就是从这里开始依次向西延伸布局，从玉珠峰站到沱沱河站，从唐古拉山口站到那曲站，从当雄站到拉萨站……

　　和人们一般认识上的情况不同的是，青藏铁路“格-拉”段由于平均海拔在4000米左右，很多车站由于条件限制并没有常驻人员值守，是只有站台、设备房的无人值守站。

　　来自青藏铁路建设总指挥部的信息显示，在“格-拉”段全程43个新建车站中，有38个属无人值守车站，“无人值守的原因有两个：一是这些地方环境恶劣，人类常年在那里值班会对人身造成很大的伤害，从以人为本的角度出发不设置值班人员；二是因为青藏铁路的信息化程度很高，设置在格尔木、拉萨等地的程控室完全能够掌握全段列车运行情况，高科技也让我们没必要安排人工值班。”指挥部一位负责同志透露。

　　事实上，从2001年开工的新青藏铁路，已经超越了许多人普遍认识上的铁路建设的一般概念，比如无人值守车站，比如GSM—R列车移动通讯系统，比如观景台。纳赤台向东60公里，连接的是1979年完工、1984年正式运行的青藏铁路“西(宁)—格(尔木)段”，那是一段等待了20多年渴望延伸的铁路，而在2006年的6月，它终于从南山口、纳赤台开始完成了梦幻的延续，但这个延续是全新的连接，是以人为本、依靠科技而超越往事、创造神奇的延伸。

　　纳赤台车站上的风还在刮，大山依旧是亘古的沉默，但透过白色小平房的窗户，房间里一个整洁的自动操作台上的两台显示屏闪烁着亮光，几条红绿线、几个蓝红亮点也许就是显示着这条“天路”现在的安全、有序。

　　一列试运行的货车从东面行驶过来，隆隆声惊醒着曾经只有鸟兽盘桓、逡巡的荒原。车过纳赤台，列车响亮地鸣笛，向这个无人值守却忠实承担着保障路线平安的小站，深深地致敬。(

"Use your brain next time."

if this is an answer to my post, its just unpolite,nothing more and nothing less.

There are articles posted in this thread that state that the rail will be extended to the indian border to make freight rail possible between those two nations.....

So whats the perspektive of tibet and lhasa as freight rail hub between india and china on the long run?

^^ please learn to read chinese if you are going to respond to a post half of which is written in chinese. "use your brain next time" was in response to a different post, it was not addressed to you. surely you would have realized this if you had read the proceeding posts ...

i cannot answer your original questions.

if this is an answer to my post, its just unpolite,nothing more and nothing less.

There are articles posted in this thread that state that the rail will be extended to the indian border to make freight rail possible between those two nations.....

So whats the perspektive of tibet and lhasa as freight rail hub between india and china on the long run?

Nineth was not referring you.
BTW, I couldn't answer your question either but I would like to try:
Currently the major purpose of this railroad is for the development of Tibet itself. There might be some perspect within Chinese bordering countries like Nepal, but I don't see anything approved between China and India because of this rairoad in the near future.
The terminal reaches only Lhasa. It will extend to other cities in Tibet before reaches the border. The in-state issue is more important currently IMO.

First Beijing-Tibet Train Reaches Lhasa After High Climb
3 July 2006
By Alexa Olesen
Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LHASA, China (AP)--China's first train from Beijing to Tibet made the final leg of its two-day journey on the world's highest railway, reaching Lhasa Monday after climbing to high elevations that sickened passengers and tested the specially built rail cars.

Girls, some dressed in track suits and others in traditional Tibetan robes, draped white scarves, a customary gift of greeting, on arriving passengers in the newly built Lhasa railway station.

Many passengers spent the day coping with the altitude, breathing piped-in oxygen from tubes as the train passed its highest point, the 5,072-meter (16,640-foot) Tanggula Pass. Three passengers threw up, while others had headaches - both symptoms of altitude sickness. Outside, Tibetan antelope and wild donkeys grazed beneath snow-capped mountains and deep-blue skies.

Aside from being a feat of engineering, the $4.2 billion railway is part of efforts to develop China's poor, restive west and bind it more closely to the booming east. Chinese leaders hope greater prosperity will help to still calls by Tibetans and other ethnic minorities for autonomy from the communist Beijing government.

The line has prompted protests by activists who say it will bring an influx of Chinese migrants to the isolated Himalayan region, threatening its ecology and diluting its unique Buddhist culture.

Trains completed shorter trips on the line between Lhasa and Golmud while passengers on the 16-car train from the Chinese capital were in the midst of their journey.

State media gave heavy coverage to the railway, with newspapers publishing front-page photos of passengers singing and villagers waving to the passing train. The state television midday news showed President Hu Jintao congratulating workers who built the line.

Before the last leg of the trip to Lhasa, the train stopped in Golmud early Monday to switch its standard engine for three powerful locomotives required to haul the train at high altitude.

Passengers included a 2 1/2-year-old boy, a 78-year-old man and a group of ethnic Tibetans newly graduated from the Beijing Police Academy who were headed home to work as police officers.

One Tibetan passenger asked a Western reporter what the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, thought of the train. The man, who asked not to be identified by name, said that with China's Internet monitoring, it was too dangerous for him to search news Web sites for the information himself.

The only signs of human habitation in the arid highlands south of Golmud were traditional herders tending yaks and small train stations that dot the rail line.

After the train climbed above 4,000 meters, ballpoint pens and bags of processed food burst due to the low air pressure. Laptop computers and digital music recorders failed, because moving parts in their disc drives are cushioned by tiny air bags that break at high altitude.

China's government says it is spending 1.5 billion yuan ($190 million) on environmental protection along the Golmud-Lhasa stretch of the railway.

But despite promises to minimize pollution, the sides of the line were littered with plastic bags, bottles and cardboard boxes. Large sections of the permanently frozen earth were grassless, puddled and scarred by vehicle tracks.

Damaged permafrost "becomes dark, ugly, muddy water," said Daniel Wong, an engineer based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen who worked on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, also laid over permafrost. "The most unfortunate thing is that such damage will spread," he said.

The railway is projected to help double tourism revenue in Tibet by 2010 and cut transport costs for goods by 75%. Until now, goods going to and from Tibet have been trucked over mountain highways that are often blocked by landslides or snow, making trade prohibitively expensive.

New York-based Students for a Free Tibet set up a Web site, rejecttherailway.com, urging the public to wear black armbands in protest of the project, which the group says "is a tool Beijing will use to overwhelm (the) Tibetan population."

"We reject the railway just as we reject China's illegitimate rule in Tibet," the site said.

Communist troops marched into Tibet in 1950, and Beijing says the region has been Chinese territory for centuries. But Tibet was effectively independent for much of that time.

The rail line is a decades-old dream for Chinese officials. But work began in earnest only in 2001, after engineers worked out how to stabilize tracks on permafrost.

The highest station is in Nagqu, a town at 4,500 meters in the plateau's rolling grasslands.

How do you people from china evaluate this situation?
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Not just the hub for China and india, but China and the vast area of Western and Central Asia.

Trade between India and China is miniscule compared with China's other trade partners but a economic hub between Pakistan,India and China via Tibet is doable and sounds promising. It benefits both parties thus helping Tibet become wealthier and more developed.

（张晓中报道）美国公司铁道合伙人（Rail　Partners）和青藏铁路局计划成立合资公司，投资2亿美元（3亿2000万新元）建设北京至拉萨豪华列车。首趟京藏豪华列车计划在2008年正式运行。

　　京藏豪华列车每周由北京发出三趟，春、夏、秋三季运行北京至西藏；到了冬天，豪华列车改跑北京至云南丽江。票价每人一天约1000美元。

　　京藏豪华列车将成为世界上最豪华的列车，内部装饰和设备可以与五星级酒店媲美。每节车厢只有四间豪华包厢，一列车厢只有８名乘客，包厢面积比京藏特快软卧车厢大三倍。包厢内安装液晶平板彩电、数码光碟播放机和宽带接口，能满足当今豪华游客的需求。

　　为了适应高原旅行的需要，豪华列车将采用现在京藏特快使用的供氧系统。合资公司计划由法国庞巴迪（Bombardie）和中国青岛四方机车制造厂合作生产豪华列车。目前运行的所有进藏列车就是由庞巴迪和四方合资公司生产的。

　　铁道合伙人公司副总裁艾德威（William F Edward），昨天在开往拉萨的首趟京藏列车上接受采访时说，公司对京藏豪华列车市场非常乐观，它将满足全球想了解神秘西藏高端游客的需求。

　　目前，世界豪华旅游排名第一的是美国，其次是欧洲和日本。艾德威认为，亚洲，尤其是中国奢侈品市场呈爆炸性增长，“中国的富人阶层已经出现并以惊人的速度增长，他们也将是我们豪华列车重要的潜在客户。此外，香港、新加坡和东南亚国家的富人也是我们服务的对象。”

　　他透露，合资公司将在未来三个月内成立，之后将正式委托庞巴迪、四方合资公司生产豪华列车。

　　谈到豪华车厢的内部设计，他说：“它们将采用现代、简约、舒适的风格，与现在的豪华列车如东方快车古典、豪华的风格有所不同。我们设计了特别宽大的窗口，方便乘客沿途观赏风景。”

　　作为豪华列车，每天1000美元的费用包括火车票、旅游观光、餐饮等费用。艾德威介绍说，京藏铁路沿线经过多个旅游城市如西安和世界著名风景点如青海湖，因此豪华列车乘客可以选择在自己喜欢城市下车，旅游两天后，乘坐下一趟列车继续旅行。对于沿途路过的著名景点，到时会安排乘客下车观光一到两个小时。

1000 USD per day?!
This is a sad story for China. Why would we need this when 46.7 percent of our countrymen are still live under 2 dollars a day? Aren't there something more meaningful to do?

1000 USD per day?!
This is a sad story for China. Why would we need this when 46.7 percent of our countrymen are still live under 2 dollars a day? Aren't there something more meaningful to do?

If you have problems with that, than you as well have problems with all the 5-stars hotels in China.

If you have problems with that, than you as well have problems with all the 5-stars hotels in China.

I don't.

1000USD per day is way higher than a normal Chinese working class citizen could afford, whilst a night or two in a 5-star hotel is not unthinkable.
What I am trying to say is, they are investing 200m USD to build somthing that only like 0.01% of the population could afford, and there are surely more meaningful things than this. Like, I wouldn't mind if they use the money to improve the conditions of more airports and more normal rail stations.

I don't.

1000USD per day is way higher than a normal Chinese working class citizen could afford, whilst a night or two in a 5-star hotel is not unthinkable.
What I am trying to say is, they are investing 200m USD to build somthing that only like 0.01% of the population could afford, and there are surely more meaningful things than this. Like, I wouldn't mind if they use the money to improve the conditions of more airports and more normal rail stations.

I do understand your objection, but it's a free economy and it's private money. they can do almost whatever they want as long as it does not harm other people. And 200 USD is a monthly income of a construction worker in Shanghai. I don't think he could afford a night in a 5-star hotel. Beside the financial question, there are many more factors that would hinder him to enter a 5-star hotel .... e.g. clothings, etiquettes, education, etc.

Someone provides the service, the other take it with money, that's capitalism...

I do understand your objection, but it's a free economy and it's private money. they can do almost whatever they want as long as it does not harm other people. And 200 USD is a monthly income of a construction worker in Shanghai. I don't think he could afford a night in a 5-star hotel. Beside the financial question, there are many more factors that would hinder him to enter a 5-star hotel .... e.g. clothings, etiquettes, education, etc.

I understand, but I think 青藏铁路局 has also its part to play, right?:). I guess this is not private money, maybe I am wrong.
And for 5-star hotels, it is quite easy to find 5-star hotels around 100USD per night in China, which is of course expensive for a worker, but still 1 or 2 nights wouldn't look that impossible than a 1000USD per day tour. Besides, hotels are one of the essential needs (although 5-star is luxiourious), people have to have a place to sleep. Whereas tour is not essential to everyone's life.
I keep picture scenes like this train runs away from Beijing station with a lot of people staring at it, and none of them would ever get a chance to stay in one of these. It's just disturbing, not that this project can't make money.

買辦當道, 如果中國公司去米國和米國公司合作建一條由豪華線, 中國公司去米國賣一碼頭, 賣一間米國舊船廠, 都會被米國拒絕, 首先由傳媒造輿論大反對, 如果反不了, 最后由政府出面, 以國家安全為由, 工人失業為由, 使投資, 或收購不通過. 而反觀中國, 政府官員權力過大, 官商勾結, 沒有制衡, 小圈子幾個人就好決定大事, 甚至把國家人民利益賣了都可以.

wow
This railroad is a giant workmanship, as the Chinese invest, i liked very. It gave much will to me to cover it. As it would go to cost much money for me, i do not have, I go to be only in the will.

[size=4][b]First Beijing-Tibet Train Reaches Lhasa After But despite promises to minimize pollution, the sides of the line were littered with plastic bags, bottles and cardboard boxes. Large sections of the permanently frozen earth were grassless, puddled and scarred by vehicle tracks.

Damaged permafrost "becomes dark, ugly, muddy water," said Daniel Wong, an engineer based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen who worked on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, also laid over permafrost. "The most unfortunate thing is that such damage will spread," he said.

The railway is projected to help double tourism revenue in Tibet by 2010 and cut transport costs for goods by 75%. Until now, goods going to and from Tibet have been trucked over mountain highways that are often blocked by landslides or snow, making trade prohibitively expensive.

New York-based Students for a Free Tibet set up a Web site, rejecttherailway.com, urging the public to wear black armbands in protest of the project, which the group says "is a tool Beijing will use to overwhelm (the) Tibetan population."

"We reject the railway just as we reject China's illegitimate rule in Tibet," the site said.

Communist troops marched into Tibet in 1950, and Beijing says the region has been Chinese territory for centuries. But Tibet was effectively independent for much of that time.


Western media hate this railway so badly. At least in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Tibet has being a part of China. Tibet first became a part of China in year 13**, conquered by mongols.

There are some people trying to block China's business expanding for the sake of security reasons as excuses. But generally speaking, the enterprises including government admit a natural competition principle. I believe that the US and China will be more open to each other step by step.
Chinese companies just bought the whole top floor of the newly built
NYC's 7WTC.

Qinghai-Tibet trains running at capacity since opening

XINING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The Qinhai-Tibet railway has carried a total of 7,241 people from Xining, capital of Qinghai province, to Lhasa, in its first two weeks of operation, a local railway official said Monday.

All trains from Xining to the capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region had been full since July 1, said Gu Yanmei, deputy director of the Xining Railway Station.

"All services to Tibet have been operating smoothly as of July 15," she said.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway stretches 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa. About 960 kilometers is located 4,000 meters above sea level and the highest point is 5,072 meters, at least 200 meters higher than the Peruvian railway in the Andes, the former world's highest track.

Three passenger trains travel to Tibet from Beijing, Chengdu (or Chongqing) and Xining (or Lanzhou) everyday.

Before the opening of the railway, flights from Beijing, Chengdu and several other Chinese cities carried hundreds of people to Lhasa everyday.

However, the train has proved extremely popular due to its convenience, cost and the scenery en route.

Nothing can be more excited than going there one day.

lol, double posts.

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-03-08/195012466211.shtml

我国将修建青藏铁路拉萨至日喀则支线

2007年03月08日19:50 新华网


　　新华网北京3月8日电(记者许林贵 郝亚琳 边巴次仁)西藏自治区官员8日宣布，全长254公里的青藏铁路支线——拉萨至日喀则铁路将于今年开工，2010年完工，初步投资预算达110亿元。

　　全国人大代表、西藏自治区那曲地委书记多托在十届全国人大五次会议西藏代表团新闻发布会上说，青藏铁路是西部大开发的一个标志性工程。经过论证，国家确定先修建拉萨至日喀则段支线。

　　青藏铁路西宁至拉萨全长1956公里，于去年7月1日全线开通。

　　西藏自治区旅游局的数字显示，仅在铁路开通后的5个月内，西藏就接待了海内外旅游者186万人次，同比增长48%，而全年接待的游客人数高达251万人次，同比增长39.5%。

　　“西藏人民认为西藏的青藏铁路是幸福线、经济线。”多托说，有关部门尤其重视铁路沿线的环保工作，青藏铁路的建设并未给青藏高原的生态环境带来不利影响。

Tourist numbers to Tibet double on new railway

BEIJING, July 31 (Reuters) - The number of tourists visiting the remote Himalayan region of Tibet in the first half nearly doubled to more than 1 million, helped by a new rail link and new airport, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.

They spent 990 million yuan ($130.8 million), again almost double the same period last year, the report said.

There was also a one-fifth rise in flights to Tibet, which now has three civil airports with regular services.

"The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway and Nyingchi airport as well as other improvements in basic infrastructure have driven the development of Tibet's tertiary sector," it said.

Most the tourists were domestic. Just 73,000 came from overseas, the report said.

Train services from Beijing to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa began last July, opening the door to a surge of Chinese and foreign tourism to the region.

Tibetan activists have warned that tourism and migration by Han Chinese could swamp Tibet's distinctive culture, with Tibetan people receiving less than their share of new jobs and income.

China, which expects the number of tourists visiting Tibet to reach 6 million in 2010, is building a fourth airport at Ngari in the west, which will be the world's highest. ($1=7.569 Yuan)

on news, sorry only Chinese ver. available

成都至拉萨高速公路开始前期论证 (http://www.china-highway.com/bencandy.php?fid=84&aid=19284)

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记者昨日从交通部门获悉，西部大通道“成都至拉萨高速公路”前期论证及线位调研工作已拉开序幕。成拉高速的建设，是我国继青藏铁路贯通后，将要修建的通往拉萨的第二条快速通道。该高速公路建成通车后，成都作为拉萨传统门户城市的地位将更加突出。由于沿线极为奇特的风光，成拉高速还有望成为世界级的自驾天堂。


　　成拉高速线路如何？

　　川藏北线方案目前呼声甚高

　　成拉高速工程量将极其巨大。本月15日，省交通厅规划设计院唐永建院长携该院相关专家在甘孜州对成都至拉萨高速的线位进行了现场调研；目前，省交通厅规划设计院一行已抵达新都桥一带进行实地踏勘。

　　据透露，成拉高速将采用四车道

高速公路的技术标准，设计时速80公里，路基宽度24.5米。线位方案的研究，有川藏南线、川藏北线、中线等方案。其中北线由于其相对南线而言，病害少、线形好，且多数地段海拔较低，比较符合高速路行车安全的要求，因而呼声甚高。

　　由于将穿越青藏高原边缘的横断山脉，沿线山高峪深，陡坡、滑坡、泥石流等灾害频繁，地形、地质条件面临极其复杂的各种错落、高

地震区、地热、岩爆等恶劣条件。川藏线以穿越横断山脉和三江并流区而著名，并从海拔只有510余米的成都平原跨越到中国地理的三级台阶直到青藏高原，垂直落差超过4000米。因此，工程将十分艰巨，规模将极其巨大。

　　据了解，省交通厅规划设计院在这次踏勘后，将尽快为相关部门提供决策，并进入下一步的研究。

　　成拉高速风景咋样？

　　一路风光远超青藏铁路沿线

　　成都至拉萨高速路线位方案，无论是川藏南线还是川藏北线，沿途风光都极为奇特，其精彩程度远远超过青藏铁路沿线的高原风光。

　　以目前的川藏公路为例，从成都开始，经雅安、康定，在新都桥分为南北两线：北线经甘孜、德格，进入西藏昌都、邦达；南线经雅江、理塘、巴塘，进入西藏芒康，后在邦达与北线会合，再经八宿、波密、林芝到拉萨。北线全长2412公里，沿途最高点是海拔4916米的雀儿山；南线总长2149公里，途经海拔4700米的理塘。南北线间有昌都到邦达的公路（169公里）相联。

　　因此，今后成都至拉萨高速路沿线所途经的风景点将有康定、大渡河与雅砻江的分水岭折多山、“摄影家天堂”新都桥、理塘、八宿、雅鲁藏布江大峡谷、尼洋河畔的林芝地区、巴松措国家森林公园、八美、德格、昌都等。

　　川藏线上，海拔超过4000米的著名大山超过10座，其中包括折多山、高尔寺山、剪刀弯子山、海子山、业拉山、色季拉山、米拉山等。此外，川藏线还穿越了很多性情迥异的大江大河，如青衣江、大渡河、雅砻江、金沙江、澜沧江、伟曲、怒江、帕隆藏布、尼洋河、拉萨河等。自驾在川藏线上，旅游者可充分体会到川藏线上典型的横断山脉的高山峡谷地貌，变幻莫测的风光，这些都是青藏铁路沿线单纯的高原风光所无法比拟的。因此，川藏线被广泛赞誉为进入拉萨陆路中风景最为瑰丽奇特的线路。

　　届时，成都至拉萨高速路的建成，无疑将吸引无数观光者前来自驾旅游，成为川西黄金走廊中的世界级自驾天堂。

　　成拉高速地位怎样？

　　成都作为拉萨门户将更巩固

　　成都至拉萨高速路的兴建，将使成都作为拉萨传统门户的地位更加巩固。青藏铁路通车后，青藏物流通道采购中心已从成都北移至兰州，作为进藏第一站的成都，其门户地位被明显减弱。

　　成拉高速由于将贯通甘孜州南北全线，并与成都连接，这样，成都平原经济圈的辐射将十分便捷地覆盖到甘孜州，并将大力促进川西南经济圈的发展。另外，成拉高速对开发沿线矿产、旅游资源，推动川藏区域经济的协调发展还将起重要作用。此外，川藏高速公路客运、货运物流也将从中大大受益。

Lhasa is very near to Indian boarder Nathula(only 300 km). Where is Chengdu?

^^ Chengdu is in Sichuan province, 2400km from Lhasa.

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I have collected all Qinghai-Tibet rail posts to here, let's grow it.

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I can not go to Tibet because I have asthma !!!