At present, Xizang Autonomous Region is the only provincial administrative region in China without railways. The backwardness of transportation facilities seriously restricts the economic and social development of this area, which is one of the major poverty-stricken areas in China. With the implementation of the large-scale development of the western region, the materials transported to Tibet have greatly increased. The original transportation corridor in Tibet, which is mainly based on the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, is far from meeting the urgent requirements of economic development in terms of transportation capacity, volume, speed and convenience. The construction of Qinghai-Tibet railway is an objective need to overcome the current traffic bottleneck, accelerate the economic development of Qinghai-Tibet provinces and promote the development of the western region. It is imperative to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
The transportation capacity of the railway is unmatched by any mode of transportation. The first-phase project of Qinghai-Tibet Railway (Xining-Golmud section) has been put into operation for more than ten years, and has become the main transportation channel for developing Qaidam Basin in Qinghai and promoting the economic development of Qinghai and Tibet provinces. It has promoted the construction and development of a large number of large and medium-sized projects such as Qinghai Potash Plant, Xitieshan Lead-zinc Mine, Qinghai Aluminum Plant, Qinghai Oilfield, Golmud Refinery, Mangya Asbestos Mine, Longyangxia Hydropower Station and Lijiaxia Hydropower Station, laying a solid foundation for the 4.6 million people of all ethnic groups in Qinghai to get rid of poverty and become rich and modernize. At the same time, it has also played an important role in the development of Tibet. At present, more than 85% of materials entering Tibet have to be transshipped through Golmud. The continuous construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will greatly improve the comprehensive transportation capacity and fundamentally improve the traffic conditions and investment environment of the two provinces.
The construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway will improve the road network layout and realize the three-dimensional traffic in Xizang Autonomous Region in one fell swoop. Judging from the road network layout, Tibet is a blank. Moreover, there is no railway connection between Tibet and Qinghai, and between Qinghai and Xinjiang. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs through Qinghai and Tibet provinces and is a strategic channel connecting Tibet, Qinghai and the mainland. It is also an important part of the road network skeleton in the hinterland of the west, and will be the backbone railway of the road network in this area in the future. At the same time, the completion and opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will form a three-dimensional traffic of railways, highways and aviation, and completely solve the problem of "difficulty in entering Tibet".
The construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway will provide a broader space for the economic development of Qinghai-Tibet provinces and make its superior resources more fully developed. At the same time, the huge national investment and the large amount of manpower and material resources needed for railway construction will directly stimulate the economic development of Qinghai-Tibet provinces, promote the rational adjustment of their industrial structure, accelerate the process of urbanization, industrialization and modernization, and realize "leap-forward" development.
The construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is also the need to strengthen the ties between other vast areas of China and Tibet, promote cultural exchanges between Tibetans and other ethnic groups, and enhance national unity.
The construction of Qinghai-Tibet Railway is also the need to develop the rich tourism resources of Qinghai-Tibet and promote the sustainable economic development of the two provinces. The tourism resources along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway are unique in the world. From 199 1 to 1998, the average growth rate of passenger flow into Tibet is as high as 18.7%, and it is still growing at a high speed, but the backward traffic situation seriously restricts the further development of tourism. The construction of railway will attract more and more domestic and foreign tourists, promote the rapid development of tourism in Qinghai-Tibet province, make it grow into a new economic growth point, and may become one of the pillar industries of the national economy of the two provinces.
Building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a long-term need to change the current unreasonable energy structure in Tibet and fundamentally protect the ecological environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. References:
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