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 | A general view shows the finished Lhasa Railway Station in Lhasa, Tibet, June 30, 2006. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway will begin trial operations on July 1. click to open  |  | A railroad worker looks out from a railway bridge near Lhasa, Tibet, western China, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. Construction crews working at altitudes so high that they breathed bottled oxygen have finished laying all but the last 70 kilometers (45 miles) of a controversial railway linking Tibet to the rest of China, officials said Wednesday. The railway linking the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, to the western Chinese city of Xining, some 1,956 kilometers (1,220 miles) away, is part of efforts by the government to bind this Himalayan region more closely to the rest of China. click to open |
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