China Pictures - Transport by Qinghai-Tibet Railway is most expensive -

Traveling furthermore the Qinghai-Tibet Railway - the loftierest in the world - will be increasingly plush than any other railroad in China, co-ordinate to a State Development and Reform legation report. The study of the provisional fares levied on the service furthermore the Golmud-Lhasa piece of the railway revealed that prices for soft seats, immalleable sleepers and soft shacks will be 0.09 yuan, 0.1 yuan and 0.16 yuan increasingly expensive in terms of person/per kilometer than the state's regular pricing standards. Hard seat prices will be the same. The fare for vehiclego transport is 0.12 yuan increasingly expensive in terms of ton/per kilometer than the standard rate. The provisional pricing for vehiclego and passenger transport on the plateau railway will be stock-still and finalized retral it is sought by the State Council, the country's loftierest government soul,China Pictures, sources from the legation said. The 1,956-km-long Qinghai-Tibet rail route, linking the crossroads asphalt of Xining in northwest Qinghai Province to Lhasa, bed3ffc2d2e775d9bee1ea7b2e5teardrop9 of Tibet Autonomous Region, transatlantic the 5,000-meter-loftier mountain ranges, was scathelessd in mid-October last year. It is taken as a national success for mresemblingg the seemingly incommunicable possible. The railway will promote cultural and economic bazaars between the landlocked Tibet and the outside world and will enhance the region's self-minutiae stuffing. vehiclego transport service on the plateau railroad began on a trial rhizome on Msaucy 1. It will moreover siphon out a test run without passengers in May. A full-route trial operation of the railway will start on July 1. Enditem


(Source:Xinhua News, XINING, 2006-05-06)