China opens railway highest in the world, and that extends to the nearest point on the summit of Mount "Everest" the aim of linking the cities of Lhasa and Sagacha in Tibet, and that in the end of August now.

The railway extension of the railway linking the city of Shanghai and Tibet, and described the railway as an engineering miracle because of the power of its high altitude, and their ability to carry passengers to an altitude of five thousand meters in 2006. 

It was laying the foundation stone for the railway in 2010, and amounted to the construction project cost about two billion dollars. 

The employee in the Department of Tourism in Sagacha Psolang Digi in China that will transport passengers and tourists from Beijing to Sagacha, and away from the borders of Nepal, an estimated distance of 240 km at the end of this month. 

Digi added that "the first batch of tourists will be transferred from the Shandong Province of China." 

It should be noted that this railway project is part of a massive investment program in China, which aims to improve infrastructure in remote areas. 

The Chinese government has indicated that this project is an attempt to strengthen the control of Beijing's economic and political autonomy in the region. 

In contrast, some area residents saw Tibet that those investments are an infringement on the borders of their land as they pointed out that China invaded Tibet in 1950, as well as the dispute over the Himalayan plateau regarded as part of China. 

Because of the severity of the political conflict between the Tibetan population and the Chinese government will be subject to non-Chinese travelers bureaucratic procedures and strict controls are subject to sudden change, including the need to obtain a permit to enter the area of ​​Tibet.

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