Railway changes meaning of distance on ‘roof of the world’

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The Qinghai-Xizang Railway enables freight transport from Xining to Lhasa in 48 hours, facilitating regular shipments of diverse goods including refrigerated produce. This railway is changing perceptions of distance and connectivity on the Tibetan Plateau.

LHASA (July 3): Forty eight hours. That is the time for a freight train loaded with everything from cars to refrigerated fresh produce to travel from Xining, capital city of northwest China’s Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, capital of Xizang Autonomous Region in the country’s southwest. Such trains are running regularly on the 1,956-km Qinghai-Xizang Railway, [...] The post Railway changes meaning of distance on ‘roof of the world’ appeared first on Borneo Post Online.