What are the new achievements of China's railroad construction?

Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the national economy has begun a new period of development. 1982, the Twelfth Congress of the CPC put forward to the end of the century the great goal of quadrupling the GDP of agriculture and industry. And pointed out that "railroad transportation has become an important constraint on the development of the national economy, the transport capacity with the needs of the growth of transport volume is very poorly adapted. In order to change this situation, the railroad must carry out a series of key construction, accelerate the development speed, increase capacity." According to this spirit, the railroad put the focus of the capital construction on strengthening the technical transformation of existing railroads, and appropriate arrangements for the construction of some of the necessary new lines, put forward the "northern war in Daqin, southern attack on Hengguang, take the East China" strategy. At the same time to accelerate the transformation of traction power, improve the repair capacity of rolling stock, focusing on the matching of the railroad transportation equipment to improve transport capacity, to solve the transportation weaknesses. This major decision was reflected in the Sixth Five-Year Plan from 1981 and the Seventh Five-Year Plan from 1986. During the Sixth Five-Year Plan period, the capital investment in railroads was the largest among all the Five-Year Plans. Of this investment, 33.2% was for the renovation of existing railroads. 1,870 kilometers of double lines were laid, making most of the major trunk lines in the operating railroads double lines, 2,483.5 kilometers of electrified railroads were rebuilt and newly constructed, and 3,421 kilometers of railroads with internal combustion traction were added. The proportion of internal-combustion and electric locomotives in the locomotive fleet increased to 34.6%, and thus internal-combustion and electric locomotives accounted for 39.1% of the completed haulage tasks. In terms of transport organization, many reforms have been carried out. Organization unit heavy combination of trains, improve the weight of goods trains; expanding the passenger car grouping, tap the transport potential; the use of LTL transport centralization, reduce along the zero train and handle along the zero station, improve the operating speed; reform of the locomotive crew system, the implementation of the long crossroads ride system, give full play to the capacity of locomotives; the development of containers and containerized transport to improve the efficiency of freight transport, and so on. By the end of 1985, the national railroad mileage of 52,119 kilometers, passenger and freight conversion turnover exceeded 1 trillion tons of kilometers. 1986 began to enter the seventh five-year plan period, the railroad implementation of the input-output contracting system of responsibility for the operation of the more mobilized the whole road staff enthusiasm. Beijing-Qin, Daqin (the first phase of the project) and other double-line electrified railroads were completed one after another. More than 14 kilometers long Dayaoshan Tunnel was successfully opened, so that the main north-south trunk line-Beijing-Guangzhou Railway double line was opened to traffic, which greatly improved the passing capacity. The Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway was repaired to Alashankou, completing the iron and steel transportation line running east to west across the Chinese mainland. Other old lines renovation and rolling stock industry has also made great progress. (A) focused on the construction of new railroads since the implementation of the reform and opening-up policy, the task of coal transportation has increased dramatically. Coal transportation accounted for more than 40% of the railroad freight. For this reason, the Ministry of Railways in this period of the new railroad construction focus on preventing the solution of coal transportation. The new gun stone railroad is gun state and teng zao coal field coal a sea channel, new gun railroad and gun stone railroad, taijiao railroad connected to become parallel to the east section of the east and west of the Longhai railroad trunk line, is the mountain system of coal out of the sea of a channel. Da Qin double-line electrified railroad under construction, but also China's first coal-based, heavy-duty unit trains of modern railroads, this railroad will be Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other regions of the important passage of coal transportation, the development of mountain coal bases, increase Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, the amount of coal transfer will play an important role. The western section of Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway from Urumqi to the national border of Alashankou connecting with the railroad of the former Soviet Union is another important international trunk line from China to the former Soviet Union, and also an important part of the continental bridge connecting Asia and Europe, which is of great significance in politics, economy and national defense. ◆Beijing-Qin Railway The Amazing Railway, with a total length of 290 kilometers from Shuangqiao of Beijing Junction to Qinhuangdao, is an important channel for the northern route of Jin coal outward transportation, and is the first newly built double-line electrified railroad in China, and adopts AT power supply mode for the first time. The 155 kilometers of the Beijing end of the line is the second line added to the Tongtuo line built in 1975, and the rest is newly built. The Beijing-Qinshan Railway started construction in September 1981, opened to traffic in 1984, operated in 1985, and completed in 1986 with a fiber-optic digital communication system. Right: Electric locomotive hauling coal train. ◆Gunshi Railway The Gunshi Railway, with a total length of 308 kilometers from Chengjiazhuang of Beijing-Shanghai Railway to Shishoushou Port on the coast of the Yellow Sea, is a corridor for Shanxi and Shandong coal to go out to the sea, which was begun to be constructed in 1981 and was put into operation in 1985. ◆Xingun RailwayXingun Railway is 315 kilometers long from Xinxiang of Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, crosses the Yellow River in Changguan, enters Dongming of Shandong and arrives at Gunzhou. The section from Jining to Heze was started in 1977 and completed in 1982, and the section from Xinxiang to Heze was started in 1983 and completed in 1985. The total length of Changdong Yellow River Bridge is 10,282 meters, with 301 piers and a 1,243-meter-long meeting station on the bridge. In October 1985, the bridge was completed. This section of the Yellow River "can't run a boat with water, and can't run a car without water", the riverbed is changing drastically, which is known as "tofu waist", and the project is very difficult. ◆Daqin Railway Daqin Railway from Datong Junction Hanjialing to Qinhuangdao, a total length of 653 kilometers, in Huailai, Hebei Province, and the Fengsha Railway crosses the Beijing suburb of Huairou and the Jingtong, Jingcheng two railroads crosses the railroad, started in 1985, will be completed in 1992. This railroad is an important channel for coal transportation from Yanbei, Pingshuo, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other regions, with an annual capacity of 100 million tons. The whole line adopts advanced technology and equipments with international level in 1980s. Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway U-A section Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway U-A section is 467 kilometers long from Urumqi to Alashankou, the border, which connects with the railroad of former Soviet Union. The construction of this road was started in 1958 and stopped in 1961, then resumed in 1985 and was completed in September 1990, which is the first section of Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway in China. ◆Tonghuo Railway Tonghuo Railway is a 419-kilometer-long railroad from Tongliao to Hollinhe in Inner Mongolia, which is a railroad for the transportation of Hollinhe open-pit coal. The construction was started in May, 1978, and opened to traffic in 1984, and was delivered to the operation on December 31, 1989. This railroad is of great significance for the transportation of lignite coal, solving the energy shortage in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia, promoting the economic development along the line and consolidating national defense. ◆ Qinghai-Tibet Railway The investment for environmental protection project of the whole Qinghai-Tibet Railway will reach RMB 1.2 billion, which is the highest record in the history of China's railroad construction. This was disclosed by the Information Office of the State Council in a white paper titled "Ecological Construction and Environmental Protection in Tibet" published here on the 10th. The white paper said that the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has set the goal of "building an ecological and environmental protection-oriented railroad" at the beginning of the demonstration. In choosing the route of the railroad, it tries to avoid the key areas where wild animals live and move around as much as possible. Can not be avoided, must pass through the wildlife activity area of the road, for the habits of wildlife along the line, migration patterns, in different sections of the deployment of twenty-five different types of wildlife channel; in many sections also specially set up as a wildlife migration channel of the dry bridge, in order to maximize the guarantee of the normal activities of wildlife along the railroad. For example, in June and July, in order to allow Tibetan antelopes to pass through the construction site to give birth to their young, the relevant construction units of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway stopped work for four days, and construction personnel and machinery were evacuated from the site. The white paper said that in order not to damage the natural environment such as grasslands and wetlands, great attention has been paid to the protection and restoration of surface vegetation during construction. The turf in the sections where vegetation is difficult to grow, the roadbed and the places where construction vehicles pass through are to be preserved, transplanted section by section, preserved easily, and later covered to the completed roadbed slopes or the surface of the construction site, so as to minimize the loss of the surface vegetation. For the lots with better natural conditions, select grass species suitable for plateau growth, supplemented by suitable seeding breeding techniques, and make the best efforts to restore the surface vegetation. The natural conditions are slightly better sections of artificial cultivation of turf test, supplemented by spraying, mulching and other technologies, in the source area of the Yangtze River in Tuotuohe, plateau roadbed grass planting special test has achieved initial success. The white paper said, after the completion of the qinghai-tibet railroad stations, heating use of electricity, solar energy, wind energy-based environmentally friendly energy. Station waste collection and centralized treatment; living sewage should be treated and discharged according to standards, and used for greening as far as possible; buses use closed car body, garbage bagged on the car, transported to the plateau under the handover station centralized treatment. Management to adapt to the characteristics of the plateau, to take the center of the management mode, the whole line set up seven central station. Each center station management control radius of about eighty kilometers, on the line and maintenance is fully responsible. As far as possible to adopt remote automation control, mechanized maintenance, reduce the organization and personnel on the plateau, and maximize the protection of the natural ecological environment of the Tibetan Plateau. (ii) Adopt advanced technology and accelerate railroad modernization construction The solution to the shortage of railroad capacity lies in adopting advanced technology and accelerating railroad modernization construction. In terms of rolling stock, high-power traction power and new types of vehicles are used to expand train sets, increase train weight and speed up train speed. To this end, several new types of internal combustion, electric locomotives and passenger and freight vehicles have been developed. At the same time the introduction of technology, imported a number of internal combustion and electric locomotives. From 1949 to 1989, the railroad rolling stock factory*** manufactured 1,139 electric locomotives, 4,953 internal combustion locomotives, 3 gas turbine locomotives, 9,659 steam locomotives, 26,922 passenger cars (including 447 subway coaches), 450,678 freight cars. In signaling, it vigorously develops automated and semi-automated blocking systems, and implements electrical centralization, dispatching centralization and dispatching supervision to improve operating speed and ensure traffic safety. Communication development of long-distance small coaxial cable, increasing long-distance cable; carrier machine to 300 road, 960 road and other multi-channel direction; railroad long-distance telephone automation, to the capacity of 300 to 6,000 multi-door longitudinal and transversal system of automatic exchange of several direction. In addition, the development of fiber-optic communications, special communications, such as scheduling phones, go to the section of the phone and train wireless dispatch telephone. Freight transport to speed up the development of container transport, improve the level of mechanized loading and unloading to reduce labor intensity. Line maintenance mechanization, in addition to self-developed tamping machine, track laying machine, slag unloading machine, roadbed shaping machine, long rail carriers, clearing machine, but also the introduction of a complete set of large-scale road maintenance machinery to improve the quality of the line. The construction of bridges and tunnels is also being innovated, and a number of bridges with novel style and tunnels with complicated technology have been built; a number of bridge factories with advanced technology for manufacturing steel girders and concrete girders have been built. ◆ Dayaoshan Tunnel Dayaoshan double-line electrified tunnel is located in the mountainous area of Yaoshan in the south ridge of northern Guangdong between Pingshi and Lechang of Beijing-Guangzhou line, which is the key feat of constructing the second line of Hengguang, with a length of 14,295 meters. Tunnel construction adopts 4 inclined shafts and vertical shafts to excavate in sections, and the cave adopts composite lining structure, according to the new Austrian method of construction. At the same time, it adopts supporting large modern machinery to realize the comprehensive mechanized flow operation of bursting, loading, transporting and spraying anchor support and concrete lining.

The world will be shaken by the magnetic levitation train project in Shanghai, China, and the "magnetic levitation speed" will rewrite the new speed of human ground travel, and the history of the world's transportation development will also open up the invention of the steam engine by Watt and the invention of the airplane by the Wright Brothers since the invention of a brand-new page.

The Roof of the World's Brilliant Crossing--Written on the Occasion of the Paving of Qinghai-Tibet Railway

October 12, 2005, is destined to leave a colorful mark on the world's railroad history: the world's highest altitude, longest line of the plateau permafrost railroad --- the Qinghai-Tibet Railway track laying all the way through the railroad. --On October 15, the first batch of aid materials for Tibet arrived in Lhasa through the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. This marks the official end of Tibet's history of not being able to access the railroad, and also marks that all provinces, cities and districts in China are all connected to the railroad.

Breaking through the permafrost problem, overcoming the lack of oxygen on the plateau, and protecting the fragile ecology

Railway construction problems cracked

The construction of the railroad into Tibet is the dream of several generations of Chinese people. Since the founding of New China, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have been caring for the construction of the Tibet Railway. 1984, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway section from Xining to Golmud was officially operated. June 29, 2001, the 1,142-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet Railway section from Golmud to Lhasa officially started construction.

Landslides, earthquakes, wind and sandstorms, thunder and lightning, strong sunshine and mudslides. In addition to these frequent natural disasters, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway project is faced with the "frozen soil, high cold and lack of oxygen, ecological fragility" three major world railroad construction problems. 4 years, more than 100,000 road building army to carry forward the "challenge the limits of the spirit of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the courage to create a first-class", in the snow-covered plateau to create a new railroad, and the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a great success.

In the past four years, more than 100,000 road construction troops have been carrying forward the spirit of "challenging the limit and creating the first-class" of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, creating one miracle after another in the snowy plateau.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has to cross 550 kilometers of continuous permafrost area, in addition to some island permafrost, deep-season permafrost, swampy wetlands and slope wetlands, which is the biggest difficulty in the construction of the project. 200 scientific researchers and engineers have jointly attacked the problem, and successively gnawed down the perennial permafrost tunnels, bridges, roadbed construction and application of a number of world problems, and a number of permafrost engineering measures are pioneered at home and abroad, making the Qinghai-Tibet Railway the first to be built in China. Many permafrost engineering measures are the first of their kind at home and abroad, making the Qinghai-Tibet Railway a "world museum of permafrost engineering".

The ice layer of the wind volcano is more than 150 meters thick. Before the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway began, some western media predicted that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway would not be able to cross the wind volcano at all.

The China Railway Bureau, which is responsible for the construction of the railway, cooperated with a number of scientific research units and successively overcame a number of world-wide highland permafrost construction problems. 2002 October, the Wind Volcano Tunnel was successfully opened.

The whole Qinghai-Tibet Railway is at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters above sea level, of which there are 960 kilometers at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level, with the highest point reaching 5,072 meters, the annual average temperature is below 0 degrees Celsius, and the extreme minimum temperature is minus 45 degrees Celsius, and the oxygen content of the air is only half of that of the mainland, and the constructors may suffer from life-threatening plateau diseases such as pulmonary edema and cerebral edema at any time.

In order to protect the health of the builders, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Construction Headquarters insisted on the health protection first, in the past, the common construction site "not afraid of suffering, not afraid of death" and other lofty words, was "people-oriented, health protection" replaced. Three-level medical institutions have been established along the line, and workers can be sent to the construction site hospital for treatment within half an hour when they are sick. Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, there are 17 large-scale oxygen stations, and each worker is obliged to inhale oxygen for no less than 2 hours a day on average. In the more than four years of construction since the start of the project, no one has died of altitude sickness.

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has many varieties of rare animals, large populations and a fragile ecological environment. The total investment in the Golmud-Lhasa section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway amounted to 33.09 billion yuan, of which the investment for environmental protection amounted to more than 1.2 billion yuan. The command department also implemented the environmental protection supervision system for the first time in China's large-scale projects, and entrusted a third party to monitor the environmental protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway throughout the whole project. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has become a model of environmental protection for China's key projects: the first time the environmental protection responsibility book was signed with the provinces and regions through which the railroad passes; the first time a migratory channel was built for wild animals; the first time turf was successfully planted and transplanted at high altitude ......

Reducing transportation costs, expanding external exchanges, and changing the structure of consumption

Plateau development Opportunity once in a lifetime

First time in Tibet, there will be a **** the same feeling: high prices. According to the investigation of the relevant departments of Tibet, in Lhasa, a ton of coal 700 yuan, a ton of cement 800 yuan, 100 yuan of the actual purchasing power of the yuan equivalent to the coastal areas of 54 yuan. The reason for this is mainly that Tibet's own production capacity is relatively low, and the road-based mode of transportation has increased the transportation costs of materials to and from Tibet and the economic expenditures of people going in and out of Tibet.

The inconvenience of transportation has increasingly become a bottleneck for Tibet's reform, opening up and economic development. Tourism, mining, Tibetan medicine industry, agricultural and livestock products processing, national handicrafts and other plateau characteristics of the development of industry, are constrained because of the traffic.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway from Xining to Golmud section since the operation, become the development of Qinghai's ChaiDaMu Basin and promote the economic development of the two provinces and regions of Qinghai and Tibet, the main road of transportation. The new city of Gobi, Golmud, has developed into a modern city from the former Gobi wasteland.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs through the two provinces of Qinghai and Tibet, and is a strategically important channel linking Qinghai and Tibet with the mainland, and is also an important part of the road network skeleton in the western hinterland. The passage of Qinghai-Tibet railroad will provide a wide space for the economic development of Qinghai, Tibet and the two provinces and regions, and fundamentally improve the transportation facilities of Tibet, so that Tibet can form the three-dimensional transportation of railroad, highway and aviation, completely solve the problem of the difficulty of the materials and personnel entering and exiting the country, and accelerate the reasonable adjustment of the industrial structure, and gradually form its own blood-forming function of the economy.

Tandem plateau landscape, show charming charm, attract the world's attention

Golden tourism line out

Blue sky and white clouds, snow-capped mountains and canyons, folk customs, religious monasteries ...... mysterious Tibetan Plateau with its great charm, has been attracting Chinese and foreign tourists. Since 1980, the number of tourists visiting Tibet has increased at an average annual rate of 27.6%, and tourism revenue has increased at an average annual rate of 34%, both of which are significantly higher than the national average.

Tibet has taken the tourism industry as the first of the characteristic economy, however, the closed transportation has restricted the growth of this industry. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway will not only provide passengers with lower fares, but will also link the three cities of Xining, Golmud and Lhasa into a whole, forming the Golmud Tourism Circle and the Lhasa Tourism Circle.

The completed Qinghai-Tibet Railway will remain open to traffic around the clock and use an infrared monitoring system. Trains will be able to reach speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour in general sections and 100 kilometers per hour in tundra sections. This means it will take no more than 12 hours to travel from Golmud to Lhasa.

According to reports, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway train is divided into two kinds of ordinary coaches and sightseeing trains, the former to transport passengers, the latter also has a tourism function, each to a resort can be parked and sightseeing, the sightseeing train is expected to have an annual capacity of 900,000 passengers. At that time, tourists will sit in the carriages with oxygen supply function, enjoy food and drink, ethnic flavor performance and other services, and browse the beautiful scenery outside the window. This will undoubtedly lead to a big increase in the number of travelers to Tibet and promote the prosperous development of Tibet's tourism industry.

Faced with the new situation, Tibet has put forward the strategy of leapfrog development. The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will undoubtedly enable Tibet to ride on the express train of the times and head for a better tomorrow.

Zhan Tianyou, word眷诚, jiangxi wuyuan people. 1861 (qing xianfeng eleven years) was born in an ordinary tea merchant family. As a child, Zhan Tianyou was very interested in machines, often with neighborhood children, with clay imitation do all kinds of machine models. Sometimes, he also secretly took apart the family's self-tuning clock, fiddled with and touched the components inside, and raised some questions that even adults could not answer. 1872, at the age of twelve, Zhan Tianyou went to Hong Kong to apply for the "young children to go to the United States to prepare for the class" organized by the Qing government. After he was accepted, his father put his signature on a certificate stating, "In case of illness, life or death, let us all be at peace with God's will". From then on, he left his parents and came to the U.S. to study in the U.S. with the ideal of learning Western "skills".

In the U.S., the students of the overseas preparatory class, witnessed the great achievements of science and technology in North America and Western Europe, and marveled at the rapid development of machines, trains, ships and telecommunications manufacturing. Some students were pessimistic about China's future, but Zhan Tianyou said with firm conviction, "In the future, China will also have trains and ships." With the conviction of studying hard for the prosperity of the motherland, he studied hard and graduated with honors from New Haven in 1867. In May of the same year, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering at Yale University, specializing in railroad engineering. In the four years of the university, Zhan studied hard and ranked first in the graduation examination with outstanding results. 1881, among the 120 Chinese students who returned to China, only two of them got the degree, and Zhan was one of them

◆Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, Urumqi and Alashankou

Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, Urumqi and Alashankou, the whole length of 467 kilometers, is connected with the former Soviet Union Railway, the road had been connected with the 1951-1953 railroad. It is 467 kilometers long. The construction of the road started in 1958, stopped in 1961, resumed in 1985, and was completed in September 1990.

◆Gunshi Railway

Gunshi Railway is 308 kilometers long from Chengjiazhuang of Beijing-Shanghai Railway to Shishoushou Port of Yellow Sea, which is a channel for Shanxi and Shandong coal to go out to the sea, and it was started in 1981 and put into operation in 1985.

◆Beijing-Qin Railway

Surprisingly, the railroad is 290 kilometers long from Shuangqiao of Beijing Junction to Qinhuangdao, which is an important corridor for the northern route of Jin coal outbound transportation, and is also the first newly-built double-line electrified railroad in China, and the first time to adopt AT power supply method. The 155 kilometers of the Beijing end of the line is the second line added to the Tongtuo line built in 1975, and the rest is newly built. The Beijing-Qinshan Railway started construction in September 1981, opened to traffic in 1984, operated in 1985, and completed in 1986 with a fiber-optic digital communication system. Right: Electric locomotives hauling a coal train.

Respondent: screw break - Magic Apprentice Level 1 3-6 21:44

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

China's new railroad construction Achievements

Splendid crossing of the roof of the world -- written on the occasion of the laying of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway

October 12, 2005, is destined to leave a colorful mark in the history of the world's railroads: the world's highest elevation, the line of the longest plateau tundra railroad -- the --On October 15, the first batch of aid materials for Tibet arrived in Lhasa through the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. This marks the official end of Tibet's history of not being able to access the railroad, and also marks that all provinces, cities and districts in China are all connected to the railroad.

Breaking through the permafrost problem, overcoming the lack of oxygen on the plateau, and protecting the fragile ecology

Railway construction problems cracked

The construction of the Tibet railroad is the dream of several generations of Chinese people. Since the founding of New China, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have been caring for the construction of the Tibet Railway. 1984, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway section from Xining to Golmud was officially operated. June 29, 2001, the 1,142-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet Railway section from Golmud to Lhasa officially started construction.

Landslides, earthquakes, wind and sandstorms, thunder and lightning, strong sunshine and mudslides. In addition to these frequent natural disasters, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway project is faced with the "frozen soil, high cold and lack of oxygen, ecological fragility" three major world railroad construction problems. 4 years, more than 100,000 road building army to carry forward the "challenge the limits of the spirit of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the courage to create a first-class", in the snow-covered plateau to create a new railroad, and the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a great success.

In the past four years, more than 100,000 road construction troops have been carrying forward the spirit of "challenging the limit and creating the first-class" of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, creating one miracle after another in the snowy plateau.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has to cross 550 kilometers of continuous permafrost area, in addition to some island permafrost, deep-season permafrost, swampy wetlands and slope wetlands, which is the biggest difficulty in the construction of the project. 200 scientific researchers and engineers have jointly attacked the problem, and successively gnawed down the perennial permafrost tunnels, bridges, roadbed construction and application of a number of world problems, and a number of permafrost engineering measures are pioneered at home and abroad, making the Qinghai-Tibet Railway the first to be built in China. Many permafrost engineering measures are the first of their kind at home and abroad, making the Qinghai-Tibet Railway a "world museum of permafrost engineering".

The ice layer of the wind volcano is more than 150 meters thick. Before the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway began, some western media predicted that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway would not be able to cross the wind volcano at all.

The China Railway Bureau, which is responsible for the construction of the railway, cooperated with a number of scientific research units and successively overcame a number of world-wide highland permafrost construction problems. 2002 October, the Wind Volcano Tunnel was successfully opened.

The whole Qinghai-Tibet Railway is at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters above sea level, of which there are 960 kilometers at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level, with the highest point reaching 5,072 meters, the annual average temperature is below 0 degrees Celsius, and the extreme minimum temperature is minus 45 degrees Celsius, and the oxygen content of the air is only half of that of the mainland, and the constructors may suffer from life-threatening plateau diseases such as pulmonary edema and cerebral edema at any time.

In order to protect the health of the builders, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Construction Headquarters insisted on the health protection first, in the past, the common construction site "not afraid of suffering, not afraid of death" and other lofty words, was "people-oriented, health protection" replaced. Three-level medical institutions have been established along the line, and workers can be sent to the construction site hospital for treatment within half an hour when they are sick. Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, there are 17 large-scale oxygen stations, and each worker is obliged to inhale oxygen for no less than 2 hours a day on average. In the more than four years of construction since the start of the project, no one has died of altitude sickness.

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau has many varieties of rare animals, large populations and a fragile ecological environment. The total investment in the Golmud-Lhasa section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway amounted to 33.09 billion yuan, of which the investment for environmental protection amounted to more than 1.2 billion yuan. The command department also implemented the environmental protection supervision system for the first time in China's large-scale projects, and entrusted a third party to monitor the environmental protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway throughout the whole project. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has become a model of environmental protection for China's key projects: the first time the environmental protection responsibility book was signed with the provinces and regions through which the railroad passes; the first time a migratory channel was built for wild animals; the first time turf was successfully planted and transplanted at high altitude ......

Reducing transportation costs, expanding external exchanges, and changing the structure of consumption

Plateau development Opportunity once in a lifetime

First time in Tibet, there will be a **** the same feeling: high prices. According to the investigation of the relevant departments of Tibet, in Lhasa, a ton of coal 700 yuan, a ton of cement 800 yuan, 100 yuan of the actual purchasing power of the yuan equivalent to the coastal areas of 54 yuan. The reason for this is mainly that Tibet's own production capacity is relatively low, and the road-based mode of transportation has increased the transportation costs of materials to and from Tibet and the economic expenditures of people going in and out of Tibet.

The inconvenience of transportation has increasingly become a bottleneck for Tibet's reform, opening up and economic development. Tourism, mining, Tibetan medicine, agricultural and livestock products processing, national handicrafts and other plateau characteristics of the development of industry, are constrained because of transportation.