Track laying for Qinghai-Tibet railway expected to complete this year
A Tibetan herdsman shows delight as a machine lays rail tracks for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway at the Damxung Railway Station in Damxung County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 18, 2005.
A machine lays rail tracks for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway at the Damxung Railway Station in Damxung County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region May 18, 2005. Tracks of 878 kilometers have been laid on the 1,142-kilometer Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The track laying of the whole railway is expected to be finished in the second half of 2005. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the highest in the world, links Golmud in northwest China's Qinghai Province and Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.
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