The #Qinghai-#Tibet Railway is the world’s highest and longest plateau railway. If traveling to Lhasa by train, you will discover that the most important part of the rail is a single-track railway: but why? Click on the video to find out. #ChinaInfrastructure | Xi's Moments

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Modern engineering feats are central to the development of the US – from the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge to the Transcontinental Railroad built largely by Chinese immigrants. Similarly, in Tibet, 16,000 feet above sea level, rests the world’s highest railway station – just one stop on the 2,000 mile-long Qinghai-to-Tibet Railway that crosses plateaus and snakes through mountains. Its construction battled frozen soil, fragile ecology, and limited oxygen. But since opening in 2006, it has br

Six people died and 10 others are missing after a construction cable broke at around 3 a.m. Friday at a bridge under construction on the Qinghai section of the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway, according to the relevant department in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Search and rescue efforts are underway. The bridge being built over the Yellow River is a steel truss arch construction. Its main span was expected to be closed by the end of this month. #Trending | CCTV