New Vistas Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway

For the past century, the Chinese people have regarded the Qinghai-Tibet Railway as a chimera, owing to high altitude, frozen earth and generally adverse natural conditions. But on July 3, 2006, the f irst Beijing-Lhasa train pulled into Lhasa Railway Station after traveling 1,956 kilometers over the isolated plateau’s mountains and desert. What had been a dream f inally became reality. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau within the Chinese boundary extends for 2.5 million sq km and covers a quar…

New Vistas Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway