Shangri -La, a charming scenery in China, will open a train.
People's Daily reported that a row of dynamic testing vehicles drove out of Lijiang Station from Yunnan on the morning of Wednesday (November 15) and ran to Shangri -La Station at 3,200 meters above sea level.Chen Yingwu, deputy commander of the China Railway Kunming Bureau, said that dynamic testing is a comprehensive "physical examination" of the quality of the overall project construction of the line, marking the key stage of the Liliang section of the Yunnan -Tibet Railway entered the project acceptance.Enter the countdown.
The Liliang Duan of the Yunnan -Tibet Railway is connected to Lijiang City and Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. It is an important part of the Dianzhuang Railway in the medium and long -term railway network of China, with a total length of 139.7 kilometers.The construction of the railway started in 2014. With the work of more than 20,000 builders, it lasted for nine years, and it was about to open the operation.
The Lixiang section of the Yunnan -Tibet Railway is located in the northwest of Yunnan Province, the southeast edge of the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau, and the middle section of the Hengduan Mountains.
It is reported that after the Lixiang section of the Yunnan -Tibet Railway opened to traffic, the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture will end the history of the railway.This will fill the gap in the railway network in northwestern Yunnan.
For local travel practitioners, the railway is about to open up is an exciting news.He Lan, the head of the Xinyunling Travel Agency of Lijiang City, said that in the past, it could only take a car from Lijiang to Shangri -La. The road conditions were not good in the rainy season, and it took more than three hours in one way.After the opening of the railway, the two places have greatly increased, and the number of tourists is expected to increase significantly.
