Due to the developed railway network and safety guarantee, It's a rather good choice to travel China by train, especially to Tibet.
It has been being a strong will of China government, Tibetan people and all other Chinese people to extend Chinese railway networks to the roof of the world--the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, which helped the Tibetan economy speedily boom. The highest point on the line is 5,072 meters above sea level. The railway covers 960-kilometer at an altitude of more than 4000 meters and over 550 kilometers within the "frozen earth" area.
The 1956-kilometer railway link begins in Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province and goes to Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region. The 814 kilometer-long stretch from Xining to Golmud was built in 1979 and started operation in 1984. The 1142 kilometer stretch between Golmud and Lhasa runs south along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and was constructed by rebuilding the original 32-kilometer-long line from Golmud to Nanshankou and laying 1110 kilometers of new track. Upon its completion, the maximum train speed is designed to reach 100 kilometers per hour in the frozen earth areas and 120 kilometers per hour on non-frozen earth.
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