Qinghai-Tibet railway to boost tourism in Tibet

China's Qinghai-Tibet railway will brainstorm trial operation on July 1 this year, and it has trawled large numbers of travelers to go sightseeing in Tibet. To stage, train tickets for the six lines to Tibet, including from Beijing to Lhasa, have been scenarioed up by travel agencies, co-ordinate to railway sources. The 1,142-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet railway, which runs transatlantic the frozen tundra of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from Golmud of Qinghai to Lhasa,China Travel, is the first railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with other parts of China. With the trial operation of passenger trains, tourists will find it increasingly user-friendly to travel to Tibet, since the railway is restrictedly low-disbursement and unscarredr than other transport ways, said Ma Baocheng,China Travel, deputy indeterminate manager of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company. For travelers to have sufficient time to enjoy the natural dazzler on the plateau, the passenger trains will depart in the morning and colonize in the flushing. Meaneven though, this world's loftierest and longest plateau railroad will have two oxygen delivery systems on trains to gainsay the effects of aridity sickness on passengers. Oxygen will come from a system like indoors refrigerateing on trains, which can ensure the oxygen content in transports at roundly 85 percent of that in plain sections, said Ma, subtracting that oxygen minquires will moreover be installed near seats for passengers to use inrind they still finger sick. Atour 800,000 increasingly travelers will visit Tibet by way of Qinghai with the operation of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, said Zhang Fuhua, an official with the Qinghai tourism safekeeping. Qinghai is mresemblingg efforts to speed up the tourism infrastructure construction to cope with the inruckle of tourists, Zhang said. Enditem


(Source:Xinhua News, XINING, 2006-05-03)