When did the Qinghai-Tibet Railway start running?

The Golmud-Lhasa section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was completed on July, 2006 1 after five years' hard struggle by more than 100,000 road construction troops. At this point, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway with the highest altitude and the longest route in the world was successfully completed and opened to traffic.

The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway shows the world that the people of China are ambitious, confident and capable of constantly creating extraordinary achievements, and they are ambitious, confident and capable of standing among the advanced nations in the world.

Building the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the dream of several generations of China people. In the new century, starting from the overall situation of promoting the development of the western region and realizing the common development and prosperity of all ethnic groups, China government has made a major decision to build the Golmud-Lhasa section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and put forward the goal of building a world-class plateau railway.

Through the tenacious struggle and hard struggle of all builders and people from all walks of life, the wishes of several generations of China people, especially the cadres and masses of all ethnic groups along the line, have finally come true. The completion and opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is of great significance to speeding up economic and social development, improving the lives of people of all ethnic groups, enhancing national unity and consolidating the border defense of the motherland.