[photopress:qinghaiTibetrailway.jpg,full,alignright]Early next year a luxury tourist train is expected to make a debut on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. All one journalist desperately wants to know is where he can buy his ticket and reserve his seat on the first train. The train will be operated by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company in cooperation with foreign tourist agencies.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway Company is based in Xining, capital of Qinghai in China’s remote northwest. An official said the luxury train will be equipped with the most advanced equipment in the world and will rival star-rated hotels in terms of convenience and comfort.
She also said that Qinghai may end its history of having no international portal entry in 2007, so that overseas tourists will be able to reach Qinghai directly from abroad and take the luxury train to visit the beautiful and mysterious Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the first to link Tibet to the rest of China, starts in Xining and ends in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. It was opened on July 1.
Source: Xinhua News Agency