High-speed 506-kilometre railway linking Golmud and Dunhuang to be built

THE CNY12.9 billion (US$2.05 billion) railway linking western China's Golmud and northern Dunhuang will start construction soon, reports Xinhua.

The railway main line will run 506 kilometres and take five years to build to bear trains carrying 60 million tonnes per year moving 160 kilometres per hour.

Once complete, it will also link the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway together, forming Northwest China's first ring shape closed railway network with Lanqing Railway, Lanxin Railway and Qingzang Railway, which will help improve railway network layout in western China, strengthen the economic and cultural exchange and cooperation between the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang and Tibet, and boost the resource development of Qaidam Basin (in Qinghai province).