Posted: Submitted by wtanaka (648) on Fri, 2006-08-11 15:59. | Subject: China to Build Golmud-Korla, Golmud-Dunhuang Raiways

QINGHAI, August 09, SinoCast -- China is planning to build two new railways from Golmud, Qinghai province respectively to Korla, Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Dunhuang, Gansu Province, making Golmud the transportation center in the whole northwest region.

The feasibility study report on the would-be railway from Golmud to Korla has been completed, expected to start in the eleventh or twelfth Five-Year Plan period. The railroad will be a second convenient passage connecting Xinjiang with China inland and a part of China's second Eurasia Bridge.

It has permitted the construction plan on the railway from Golmud to Dunhang, expected to start working in the eleventh Five-Year Plan period.

Golmud is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with its urban area in the center south of Qaidam Basin. It is the cross by Qinghai-Tibet highway and raiway, Qinghai-Golmud and Qinghai-Xinjiang highways.

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