Golmud, the Kunlun Mountains and the Qinghai-Tibet Railway

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 地球科学
• 年，卷（期）: 2002,（12）
• 页码范围: 22-24
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: K928.9

摘要

QINGHAI Province, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is to many people a remote and mysterious place. This reporter recently traveled with the 2002 Qinghai in Focus Photographers Group on their trip from the Qinghai hinterland on the northern part of the plateau to Golmud, the Kunlun Mountains, and the Qinghai-Tibet Railway construction site.Golmud, Born with the HighwayIt took us 2 hours and 10 minutes to fly the 1,150 kilometer distance from Beijing to Xining, capital city of Qinghai Province. From there we boarded a train that went directly west to Golmud.