Qinghai-Tibet Railway not to be affected by global warming in 40 years: expert

Source: Xinhua | 03-11-2009 08:19

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A Qinghai-Tibet Plateau expert said here on Tuesday that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will not be affected by global warming in at least four decades.

Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2006 shows a train roars on the  Qinghai-Tibet Railway at the Kunlun Mountains area in  Qinghai. The 1,956-km Qinghai-Tibet railway starts  from Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province,  and ends in Lhasa. It is the world's highest railway and  the first railway ever to go to Tibet.(Xinhua Photo)

Yao Tandong, a researcher with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Xinhua the highest railway in the world was built with designs to accommodate the impact of global warming.