Track laying for Qinghai-Tibet railway to finish this year

Workers lay tracks along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway on the north side of the Tanggula Mountain at an altitude of 5,072 meters in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region June 10, 2005. The 1,142-km Qinghai-Tibet Railway from Golmud in Qinghai Province to Lhasa is the most elevated rail route in the world. Workers will finish laying the tracks for the Qinghai-Tibet railway by the end of this year and trial operation will begin July 1, 2006.