Do the New Tibet Railway, the Tarim Basin Railway Loop, the Chengdu-Ku Railway and all the railways lead to Xinjiang?

Xinjiang is the province with the largest land area in China. It takes one day and one night to get out of Xinjiang by train from Hotan and Kashgar in Xinjiang, and it takes more than 20 hours to get out of Xinjiang by train from Altay or Yining in northern Xinjiang to Kashgar and Hotan in southern Xinjiang. Looking at the whole country, only the long and narrow Inner Mongolia and Gansu can feel this experience.

Afu quasi-railway map

I grew up in Xinjiang. My parents came to Xinjiang by train for four days and three nights. At that time, the 52 express train from Shanghai to Urumqi took 79 hours and 08 minutes, and the railway in Xinjiang only went to Urumqi and Korla. There are only four places in Xinjiang where you can take the train: Hami, Turpan, Urumqi and Korla.

In 2006, I went out of Xinjiang to go to college. I took the first train ticket out of Xinjiang for 54 hours, and I still felt shivering after getting off the train. Now the fastest train from Shanghai to Urumqi is shortened to about 40 hours, the distance has not changed, and the speed is obviously faster. Xinjiang has also built its own railway network, and the number of railway passages in and out of Xinjiang has increased.

North Xinjiang railway ring road

xinjiang tibet railway

At present, the main railway passages in and out of Xinjiang are Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway and the railway from Hami, Xinjiang to Ejina, Inner Mongolia. Hami-Ejina Railway is similar to Jingxin Expressway, and it has to cross a large desert no man's land. This railway is mainly for freight. Passenger trains entering and leaving Xinjiang mainly pass through Gansu.

With the opening of the Korla-Golmud Railway in Qinghai, a new railway passage will be formed, and the new Tibet Railway will be built in the future, which is also the most difficult railway to build. The border between Xinjiang and Tibet is no man's land, with complex terrain and bad climate, which is not suitable for human habitation. But this railway is not only of strategic significance, but also attracts a large number of tourists to see the scenery by train. Too many people from all over the country want to go to Xinjiang and Tibet. The new Tibet Railway will connect sichuan-tibet railway in the future, and take the train from Chengdu all the way to Lhasa, Ali, Hotan, Kashgar, Korla, Ruoqiang, Golmud, and then back to Chengdu. Do you expect such a big train loop?