China Begins Extending Qinghai-Tibet Railway

Date: 2010-9-26 20:38:00 by apolo Tags: Qinghai-tibet railway China Trains Tibet Qinghai

China began work on Sunday to build an extension to the world's highest rail link, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, linking Xigaze, the second largest city in the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region.

The 253-km line from Tibet's capital Lhasa to Xigaze will pass through five counties as well as over the 90-km long Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon.

The work will take about four years.

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China Begins Extending Qinghai-Tibet Railway

Date: 2010-9-26 20:38:00 by apolo Tags: Qinghai-tibet railway China Trains Tibet Qinghai

China began work on Sunday to build an extension to the world's highest rail link, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, linking Xigaze, the second largest city in the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region.

The 253-km line from Tibet's capital Lhasa to Xigaze will pass through five counties as well as over the 90-km long Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon.

The work will take about four years.

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China Mourns the Qinghai Quake Victims Today

Date: 2010-4-20 21:17:00 by shyoto Tags: QInghai Earthquake Earthquake

Around ruins and tents, and in cities and the vast countryside, survivors, rescuers and people around the nation will together mourn the quake victims on Wednesday - a week after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Yushu prefecture.

The death toll had risen to 2,064 as of Tuesday, with 175 missing and 12,135 wounded, the rescue headquarters said.

To express deep condolences, the Stat

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