Ge Jianxiong (ËëõÂâëÈõÑ) is a professor and director of Institute of Chinese History and Geography Studies of Fudan University. His following article “How Big was the Ancient China” is published on the China Review magazine and syndicated to China’s biggest internet portals like 163 and QQ. The translation is done by Letters from China blog: […]
Read MoreFrom The Opposite End of China Blog: With little hope of generating enough profits to match a price tag of $3.7 billion, the rail line to Tibet that opened this past summer has generated a lot of scepticism about the motives of the Chinese government. Many have worried about the influx of tourist hordes into […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for following information: Tibet (that is traditional Tibet — the Qinghai – Tibet plateau region) already supplies about one-quarter (down from nearly one half several decades ago according to some studies) of the Yellow River which originates on the Qinghai Tibet plateau. This issue ties into the water shortages, […]
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: China’s national strategy to develop the country’s western region has led to great progress, but the gap between eastern and western China is still increasing, said Wang Jinxiang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. Statistics show that the GDP generated by the country’s western region in 2005 doubled since […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: The new railroad line, which nudges Tibet closer to the rest of the world, has also inaugurated a new way of thinking about time in the Himalayas. Residents and visitors are no longer forced to travel through the mountains on steep and tortuous roads or pay costly airfare. The train is inexpensive […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, actor Richard Gere, who is also Chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, wrote an op-ed about the new Qinghai-Tibet Railway: THE opening this month of the final segment of world’s highest railway, from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, is a staggering engineering achievement and a testimony to the developing greatness […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. But as the first train ever pulled up to Lhasa station on July 1 having hurtled across frozen tundra for more than […]
Read MoreFrom The Wired magazine: China’s new 1,200-mile railway crosses some of the harshest terrain on the planet. Plug in your oxygen supply. All aboard the Tibet express. About 1,000 miles from the railway’s starting point, on the Yellow Sea city of Qingdao, past rank after rank of new apartment complexes, Amir Levin walks through a […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily: Travelers planning to take the new rail line from Beijing to Tibet are advised to bring along a book to pass the time – maybe two. The 4,064-kilometer trip will take 47 hours and 28 minutes. Authorities in Beijing yesterday set the timetables for the first trains that […]
Read MoreFrom PTI, via The Hindu News: Chinese archaeologists claim that relics unearthed in areas along the strategic Qinghai-Tibet Railway have proved that human beings lived there atleast 30,000 years ago. Experts with Qinghai Provincial Archaeological Institute said they collected large number of chipped stone tools including knives and pointed implements dating back 30,000 years in […]
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