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Feasibility Study on Qinghai-Tibet Railway Passes Assessment
[WTN-L World Tibet Network News. Published by The Canada Tibet Committee. Issue ID: 01/06/13; June 13, 2001.]
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Jun 13, 2001.
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
Lanzhou, 13 June: Chinese railway experts recently approved a feasibility study on construction of the railway section between Lhasa and Golmud on the Qinghai-Tibet railway line. The 1,956 km Qinghai-Tibet Railway will connect Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province, with Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Work on the 846-km-long section between Xining and Golmud was completed in 1984.
The State Council approved the project of the Golmud-Lhasa section last February. The Railway Ministry has set up a leading group and organized over 1,000 designers for consultations.
A leading group for examining maps of the Qinghai-Tibet railway construction was set up recently. Construction of a 50-km-long section from Golmud to Naij Tal is soon to begin.