Beijing: China is all set to launch the first electric railway in Tibet’s remote Himalayan area, linking Lhasa, the province capital, with Nyingchi, a strategically placed Tibetan border town near Arunachal Pradesh.
According to official media sources, the 435.5-kilometer Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway would be opened ahead of the ruling Communist Party of China’s (CPC) centenary celebrations on July 1.
Liu Yuxiang, Chief Engineer of the Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway, was reported earlier by the state-run CCTV as claiming that the energy transmission procedure had been finished and tested.
After the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway entering Tibet. It will pass across the southeast corner of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the most geologically active places on the planet.
In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered authorities to speed up the building of a new railway line linking Sichuan Province and Nyingchi, Tibet, claiming that the new train line will be critical in maintaining border stability.
The Sichuan-Tibet Railway begins in Chengdu, Sichuan Province’s capital, and passes via Ya’an before entering Tibet through Qamdo, cutting the distance from Chengdu to Lhasa in half.
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