What have foreigners found difficult to accomplish in China?

American Paul Solu wrote in his book Traveling in China: "With Kunlun Mountain, the railway will never reach Lhasa." Most of the world-class railway track construction engineers who have visited China, including trans-siberian railway and trans-Alps railway, shook their heads and said that with the Tanggula Mountain, they would never build a railway in Lhasa!

In 20 13, I was lucky enough to embark on this train to Lhasa. Personally, I feel that the 44-hour hard-seat green train departs from Beijing West Railway Station and crosses 550 kilometers of frozen soil, with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters and 960 kilometers, with the highest point of 5,072 meters. It passes through national nature reserves such as Hoh Xil, Sanjiangyuan and Qiangtang. Tibetan antelope and wild donkey run side by side with the train, which is at the highest peak (660. When the conductor broadcast the martyrs who died in the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway behind the Tanggula Mountain Monument, he couldn't help crying. Suddenly, he was cold all over, imagining his parents' stalwart bodies standing on the deserted Gobi desert in Hoh Xil, building something that others thought impossible. Flags are flying and they are building. Those volunteers who saw our train coming to salute us in the Hoh Xil Reserve, and those Qinghai-Tibet railway workers who maintained railway safety, all seemed impossible for foreigners to complete.

To tell you the truth, I have reservations about China's construction of "Made in China", but when I got on that train, when the train crossed Qinghai Lake and headed for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, I felt that there were a large number of excellent builders in China, insisting on what everyone suspected and others thought was impossible, and doing what the younger generation would always be proud of after seeing it. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway shocked me and made it hard for me to imagine. I will never forget it.

It has created many best in the world: the highest railway station, the highest bridge base, the longest plateau frozen soil tunnel, the highest plateau frozen soil tunnel, the longest plateau frozen soil railway bridge, the longest plateau railway, the highest altitude plateau railway, the highest speed plateau frozen soil railway and the longest frozen soil railway.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway starts in Xining City, Qinghai Province, passes through Golmud, Kunlun Pass and Tuotuo Pass, passes through Tanggula Pass, and enters Amdo, Naqu, Dangxiong, Yangbajing and Lhasa in Xizang Autonomous Region. With a total length of 1956 km, it is an important route to Tibet. Known as Tianlu, it is the plateau railway with the highest altitude and the longest journey on frozen soil in the world. It is one of the four major projects in China in the new century. In September, 438+03, it was selected as the "Global Centennial Project", which is a monument in the history of world railway construction.

We stretched our tired bodies and spent 40 hours on the train, standing, sitting, snuggling, strolling around the carriage, all kinds of fatigue. However, when the train slowly bypassed a mountain and a red palace stood in the distance, we heard someone shouting on the train: "Potala Palace!" " All eyes were focused on the high red palace, and the whole carriage was boiling, without feeling tired at all.

By the way, the Lhasa-Shigatse line of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been opened to traffic. The planning of Qinghai-Tibet Railway is to build a railway from Shigatse to Zhangmu Port on the border between China and Nepal. In 20 14, I took the whole journey of national highway 3 18, and realized that it was difficult to get to the sky from Lhasa to Zhangmu port. I think, if one day the engineers in China build the railway to the wonderland-like Zhangmu Port, the train will run at the foot of Mount Everest, with Mount Xixiabang standing in front and Nyalam mountains surrounding it, just like a fairyland with high mountains and waterfalls. The train went through frozen soil, mountains, snow, jungles and tunnels to the tropical rain forest. It has gone through spring, summer, autumn and winter in one day. Only the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has such a magical train trip.

Update, a large group of sprayers said in the comment area that motorcycles are common in the United States, but please look carefully at the questions I answered. I'm talking about repairing the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, not the locomotive! ! ! Does the locomotive have anything to do with my answer? It's really wannabe who finds fault with a bunch of eggs. I really don't know how to spray a motorcycle. That's ridiculous.