A section of rail is laid down at a construction site near Nagqu in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region March 9, 2005. The rail-laying project of Qinghai-Tibet Railway restarted on Wednesday after a shutdown due to severe winter. The 1,142-km Qinghai-Tibet Railway from Golmud in Qinghai Province to Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, is the most elevated rail route in the world, and is scheduled to open to traffic in 2007.
Local Tibetans assemble at a construction site near Nagqu in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region March 9, 2005.
A section of rail is laid down at a construction site near Nagqu in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region March 9, 2005.
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