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To: RealMuLan who wrote (4516)	3/8/2005 1:07:42 AM
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Qinghai-Tibet railway to start trial operation in 15 months: [World News]: Beijing, Mar 7 : One of China's most ambitious projects, the Qinghai-Tibet railway, is to complete track laying by the end of this year and go into trial operation on July 1, 2006. Construction of the 1,142-kilometre railway, the world's highest, started in 2001 at the cost of 26.2 billion yuan (3.16 billion US dollars), Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun told deputies of the National People's Congress from the south-western Tibet Autonomous Region today. The railway from Golmud in the north-western Qinghai Province to Lhasa, Tibet's capital, is a landmark project in China's blueprint to develop its western regions. "It is the most elevated rail route in the world. About 960 km of the railway are above 4,000 metres high and its most elevated sections reach 5,072 metres," Liu was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency. He said the railway also highlights ecosystem protection, with some eight per cent of the total construction cost -- at least 2 billion yuan (240 million US dollars) -- budgeted for ecological conservation, the biggest amount among all China's railway construction projects. After it opens to traffic in 2007, the railway is expected to link Lhasa with Qinghai's provincial capital Xining and major cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Lack of accessability has been one of the major obstacles to the economic development of the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, which makes up about one-eighth of China's territory and was the only provincial area without a single inch of operating rail route. PTI news.newkerala.com