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LHASA, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The schedule has been set
for the first five trains to Tibet via the new Qinghai-Tibet railway which will
begin trial operations on July 1, an official with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway
Company said Friday.
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, Ma added.
Tickets for the first trains are sold out.
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.
The railway will have two oxygen-enrichment systems
on trains tocombat the effects of altitude sickness.
The oxygen level in the carriages will be about 85
percent of that in low-lying plain areas, said Ma, adding that oxygen masks will
also be installed near seats for passengers in case they are affected by the
high altitude.
Zhang Fuhua, an official with the Qinghai tourism
administration, expects an additional 800,000 travelers will visit Tibet with
the operation of the Qinghai-Tibet railway.
Qinghai is working fast to build its tourism
infrastructure so it can better cope with the increase in tourists, Zhang said.
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