Chengdu—plays an important role in Tibet tourism

Now visitors can travel to Tibet by train in Chengdu, the time people take in journey will be no more than 45 hours. It is understood that the rail line in Golmud-Lhasa section will pass through 19 stations. There are five longest docked stations in this section which are located in the most famous Tibetan landscape tourism zone. Visitors can get off to get a good view of the beautiful human landscape and natural landscape.

 Visitors leave Chengdu by train to Qinghai Tibet railway will be routed via the city of Baoji, Lanzhou, Xining and Golmud. The length of the section from Golmud to Lhasa is 1142 Km. there are 19 stations in this route which most of them are unmanned, but is safe and good plateau scenery in there. This, undoubtedly, is a special journey for visitors. There is beautiful human landscape and natural landscape that people fly to Lhasa from Chengdu would never see.

Furthermore, in order to resist the Tibetan Plateau wind, strong ultraviolet radiation and other harsh natural environment, the train started from Chengdu will adopt totally closed double big glass and the sealing windshield. There is a special technique used in the joint of the train so the passengers will not feel the wind just like in other trains. With the development of sealing, the oxygen concentration, temperature and pressure are balanced in the train so the passengers would feel very comfortable. In response to the special geographical environment and the Tibetan Plateau climate, high altitude aircraft and train configurations are almost the same, each train is equipped with two oxygen system, a set of air-conditioning systems by mixing oxygen in the air, so that the oxygen content of each section of the train increased to 23% which called "diffuse" type oxygen. If passengers need more oxygen, another set of system allows passengers to use a separate interface to have more oxygen which is called concentrated oxygen. These two supply system give the passengers "double insurance."

After the completion of the Qinghai Tibet railway will gain great social and economic benefits. Some experts in Chengdu believe that the operation of the railway is not only linked the “Silk Road” in Northwest and the Potala Palace which made it to be the new gold tourism hotline in western China, but accelerate China's western tourist routes Shangri ring formation. Chengdu, as an important hub connecting the east and west, will plays an increasingly important role of Tibet tourism in the future.

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