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(TibetanReview.net, Oct12’25) – China is to begin building next month a highly costly but strategically vital railway line linking Hotan in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) with Tibet’s capital Lhasa, reported scmp.com Oct 12. The report described it as one of China’s most ambitious infrastructure projects to date.
In fact, the report said, the 1,980km (1,230 miles) line has been dubbed one of the “projects of the century” for the extreme engineering challenges it presents and the massive investment required. Traversing mountain ranges, glaciers and permafrost zones at altitudes averaging above 4,500 metres (14,764 feet), it will connect the two so-called autonomous regions in northwe...
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