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广播听力:Qinghai-Tibet Railway Benefits People in Tibet in Multiple Ways

Source: CRI    2016-06-30  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

Known as "the Roof of the World,"the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau used to be "inaccessible to the outside world."

However, that was before the opening of the Railway.

Now, an increasing number of people, especially holiday makers, can explore this holy land.

Statistics released by the Tibetan government show that the autonomous region received more than 20-million visitors in 2015, 11 times more than before the railway started service.

Chen Youti, who works in the Education Bureau of Bange County, says the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has greatly shortened his travel time from inland China to Tibet and lowe