From AFP via Yahoo! News: Tibetan exiles said they will protest next month’s opening of the world’s highest railway which links the Himalayan plateau with the rest of China. Exiles said they would hold rallies outside Chinese consulates worldwide against the July 1 opening of the railway which they fear will lead to a flood […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua: Officials and experts yesterday called for preparatory steps to be taken in the construction of the final west route of the south-to-north water diversion project, to bring much needed water to parched Northwest China. Once completed the project will carry urgently needed water from southern China through a series of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet (link) China has reached a landmark agreement with its Southeast Asian neighbors on oil shipping along the Mekong River. The agreement with Laos, Myanmar and Thailand will see a trial program of processed oil shipping from May to December, said a maritime affairs official of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The river rises on […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online With much publicity and drum-beating in local media, China announced last month the completion of one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in its history: the Qinghai-Tibet (or Qingzang) Railway (see map below), which connects enclosed, remote Tibet with the rest of China via the city of Golmud, in Qinghai province. […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Looking from the imposing Potala Palace into the Lhasa River Valley, one glimpses a white bridge far in the distance. For the moment, it is empty. But soon, trains will be rolling across and into the brand new train station now under construction on the opposite bank. A whole new quarter of […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: China announced on Saturday completion of the world’s highest railway, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which stretches 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa cities in western China. The announcement was made at a ceremony held at the Lhasa Railway Station Saturday morning to mark the country’s success in making the impossible possible, by […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Serious shortages of primary energy sources like oil and coal have prompted the mainaland Chinese government to promulgate a law on the development of renewable energy sources. Solar energy could be the first choice as an alternative to fossil fuels. China’s western areas, especially the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, and […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Washington Post: China – Canadian telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. said Wednesday that China’s Railways Ministry has chosen it to provide a digital wireless communications network on the world’s highest rail service, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The decision followed a yearlong trial of Nortel’s GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) for […]
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