Mission Hills on the Tide 丨 The Legend of Tianlu on the Plateau Continues
Tibet's first electrified railway, the Lalin Railway, was put into operation at the end of last month.
Less than a month later, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Nyingchi Railway Station to learn about the relevant situation during an inspection in Tibet, and took a special train to observe the construction along the Lalin Railway.
Why does a section of the plateau sky attract the attention of the general secretary?
Hope for a hundred years to come true
The Lhasa Railway starts from Lhasa in the west and ends in Nyingchi City in the east. It has a total length of 435.48 kilometers and a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour. The fastest way from Lhasa to Nyingchi is 3 hours and 29 minutes.
The Lalin Railway is an important part of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway under construction.
The construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway is the dream of the Chinese nation across the centuries.
As early as 1919, Mr. Sun Yat-sen put forward relevant ideas in the "Industrial Plan".
After Tibet's peaceful liberation in May 1951, Tibet's road network construction gradually started, but due to national strength and technical difficulties, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway has not yet started construction.
In my country's railway network, there is always a blank in southeastern Tibet.
△The green-painted Fuxing EMU is driving on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
(Photo/Photo by Kang Xiaoyu, Headquarters reporter)
The "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to study the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway.
In December 2018, the Chengdu-Ya'an section of the eastern section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway was first opened for operation.
On June 25 this year, after 6 years of construction, the Lalin Railway in the western section was put into operation, ending the history of no trains in southeastern Tibet, and the Fuxing EMU drove on the snow-covered plateau for the first time.
Construction of the last section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, from Ya'an in Sichuan to Linzhi in Tibet, has also started.
After the completion of the entire Sichuan-Tibet Railway, it will become the second "sky road" into Tibet after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
In November last year, when the construction of the Ya'an-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway started, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions and emphasized that we must give full play to the advantages of my country’s socialist system in concentrating on major tasks and accomplish this glorious and arduous historical task. it is good.
The roof of the world writing miracles
As the first electrified railway in Tibet, Lalin Railway has overcome many rare problems in the world and created a series of miracles of plateau railway construction.
The Lalin Railway runs through the valleys of southeastern Tibet between the Gangdese Mountains and the Himalayas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. More than 90% of the lines are above 3000 meters above sea level. It crosses the Yarlung Zangbo River 16 times with a relative elevation difference of 2500 meters. The terrain and geological conditions are extremely complicated.
The entire Sichuan-Tibet railway line has "eight ups and downs", with a cumulative climb height of more than 14,000 meters. The construction difficulty is the world's most difficult, and the construction period will exceed 10 years.
Since the peaceful liberation of Tibet, my country has built a transportation network on the "roof of the world."
Before the peaceful liberation, transportation in Tibet basically relied on people carrying animals on their backs, and there was no highway in the modern sense.
"The rocks are crisscrossing, the roads are endless, the hardships and dangers, and the unspeakable state" was once a true portrayal of Tibet's traffic conditions.
As of the end of 2020, the total mileage of roads in Tibet Autonomous Region has exceeded 110,000 kilometers, the mileage of railway operations has exceeded 950 kilometers, and 130 routes have been opened.
The modern transportation network extending in all directions makes the "sky moat" in the snowy area a thoroughfare.
Crossing the sky and extending happiness
The construction of major infrastructure such as roads and railways has paved the road to well-off and happiness for the Tibetan people.
Behind this is the continuous improvement of the country's comprehensive national strength, and it also bears the original mission of the Chinese Communists.
In 1951, Tibet was peacefully liberated. In the following three years, more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians worked bravely under extremely difficult conditions to build the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway with a total length of 4,360 kilometers. This ended Tibet’s history of no modern highways and created it. One is not afraid of hardship, second is not afraid of death, tenacious hard work, willing to be a road stone, the military-civilian family, and the "two-way" spirit of national unity.
In 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Sichuan-Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet highways, demanding that the spirit of "two roads" be further promoted and promote the development of Tibet.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is another feat created by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Faced with the three major global engineering problems of permafrost, high cold and hypoxia, and ecological fragility, hundreds of units and hundreds of thousands of construction forces from the central to the local level worked together and worked together to make the dreams of several generations of Chinese a reality.
On July 1, 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was opened to traffic, setting a number of world records.
△ Passengers on the Fuxing EMU (photographed by Li Jin, a reporter from Taiwan Guoguang)
Super projects, like monuments without words, record the process of national unity and national rejuvenation, and engrave the spirit of hard work and self-improvement of the Chinese nation on the snow-covered plateau.
The planning and construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway is an important measure to promote the development of Tibet and the improvement of people's livelihood.
In August last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium that it is necessary to promote the construction of a number of major infrastructure and public service facilities, and build more solidarity lines and happiness roads around the Sichuan-Tibet railway construction and other projects.
During this visit to Tibet, the general secretary emphasized that we must make overall plans for the construction of the western border railway network, fully demonstrate and scientifically plan, and better serve the high-quality development of the border areas and the high-quality life of the broad masses of people.
The plateau Tianlu will continue to write a new legend.
Producer丨Shen Yong, Zhao Xuehua, Gong Xuehui
Chief Author丨Huimin Liu
Broadcast丨Yao Ke
Audio Production丨Li Xiaodong
Vision丨Chen Kuo Zhang Jing
Editor丨Du Hongyang