Qinghai-Tibet railway: world famous plateau tourist route.

A senior Chinese official says the Qinghai-Tibet railway is expected to become the world's most famous plateau tourist route.

Wang Xiaoqing, mayor of Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province in west China, says it is the world's longest plateau railway, stretching from Xining to Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, a distance of 1100 kilometers.

The railway connects various famous resorts and places of interest.

The structural work is almost finished and it is scheduled to be put into use in 2007.

Source: CRIENGLISH.com March 10th,2005