The Qinghai Tibet railway’s influence on people’s life in Tibet

As a special geographical unit, Tibet’s economic development will be dependent on the external for a long time. Due to the limited capacity of the existing road transport and high transportation costs, the exchange of goods has no substantial increase. This, therefore, undoubtedly limits the potential for economic growth in Tibet.

It is showed in Tibet’s GDP based on the past data that Tibet's economic growth increasingly depends on the cargo access to Tibet. Therefore, after the completion of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, transportation bottleneck will be broken and cargo out of Tibet will greatly enhance the sustainable development of Tibet's economy which will undoubtedly play a decisive role to Tibet's economic growth.

Just take construction industry as an example, the construction industry has become one of Tibet's rapid development of industries. The experts pointed out that the huge need of construction materials by the development of Tibet’s construction industry. But limited resources and environmental constraints, Tibet is not suitable for large-scale development of building materials industry, especially the production of cement. The need of Tibet of raw materials will continue increase. Now, all materials transported by the car and the costs of transport remain high. After the completion of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the freight will be significantly lower, and out of Tibet's freight traffic will be significantly enhanced.

According to statistics, after the completion of Qinghai-Tibet railway, the annual growth rate of approximately 20% domestic and overseas tourists, domestic and overseas tourists to Tibet, the direct per capita income of about 1,100 Yuan. People travel to Tibet by train keep an annual growth rate of approximately 35%. On this basis, assuming that the Qinghai-Tibet railway was put into operation in 2006, 2006-2010 annual growth rate of the number of visitors by 30% calculation, then travel to Tibet in 2010 the number of tourists from home and abroad are expected to reach 528.24 million, with a per capita to Tibet to direct income 1100 Yuan total, by 2010, Tibet's tourism offer because of the direct income of up to 5.811 billion Yuan.