China set to begin building strategic East Turkestan-Tibet Railway this year

9 months ago

(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’25) – China is to launch this year one of the world’s most ambitious railway projects with great strategic value that would link the resource-rich, occupied territories of East Turkestan (Chinese: Xinjiang) and Tibet by 2035. The report has emerged not long after China carried out the groundbreaking ceremony for building the world’s largest and potentially most dangerous hydro-power dam in Tibet.

Meant to build a railway line to link Hotan in East Turkestan and Lhasa in Tibet, a Xinjiang-Tibet Railway Company that is wholly owned by China State Railway Group has been formally registered with 95 billion yuan (US$13.2 billion) in capital, reported the scmp.com, citi...

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