Qinghai-Tibet Railway which will begin trial operations on July 1 ,2006 .
The first five trains will depart from Beijing, Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Xining, capital of the northwestern Qinghai Province, Shanghai and Guangzhou, capitalof the southern Guangdong Province, according to Mao Baocheng, deputy general manager of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company.
Trains bound for Tibet will depart daily from Beijing, Chengdu and Xining. There will be departures from Shanghai and Guangzhou every other day.
The 1,956-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet railway is the world’s highest and longest plateau railroad and also the first railway connecting the Tibet Autonomous Region with other parts of China.
Some 960 kilometers of its track are located 4,000 meters abovesea level and the highest point is 5,072 meters, at least 200 meters higher than the Peruvian railway in the Andes, which was formerly the world’s highest altitude railway.
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