At the start of the new year, rail investment is expected to increase in 2022. In 2021, at the Fourth Session of the Thirteenth National People's Congress, the Qinghai Provincial Delegation proposed to "include the Xining-Yushu-Chamdo Railway Project into the National Railway's Fourteenth Five-Year Plan". Recently, the State Railway Administration responded.

The reply of the State Railway Administration stated that the State Railway Administration will combine the formulation of the "14th Five-Year Plan for Railway Development" and the revision of the "Medium and Long-Term Railway Network Planning", and will work with relevant departments, local governments and railway enterprises to coordinate regional development, On the basis of factors such as road network layout, transportation needs and financing, the construction timing and engineering plan of the project should be studied in depth, and relevant plans should be included when conditions are ripe.

The Xining-Yushu-Chamdo railway project is an important railway passage connecting the three western provinces of Qinghai, Tibet and Yunnan to Tibet-related areas. The line starts from Xining City, Qinghai Province, passes through Hainan, Guoluo, and Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures, and connects to the Changdu Station of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway under construction. The total length of the line is about 1,070 kilometers. The construction of the project will closely connect the northwest region and the southwest region, establish an important transportation corridor between Qinghai, Tibet and Yunnan, and effectively serve and support the implementation of national strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative, ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, and a new round of western development, promoting the The personnel exchanges and the flow of factors in the areas along the route will promote the accelerated development of tourism, clean energy, ecological animal husbandry and other industries, and help regional economic and social development and opening up to the outside world.

At the same time, the Xining-Yushu-Chamdo Railway is the second railway entering Tibet in Qinghai Province, which will effectively ease the transportation pressure on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway after completion.

The Qinghai Provincial Development and Reform Commission will conduct in-depth research on the project plan, do in-depth and solid preliminary research work on the project, further strengthen the connection with the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Railway Administration, and the National Railway Group, and actively strive for the project to be included in the national railway as soon as possible for five years. The development plan will officially start the preliminary work as soon as possible. Editor / Xu Shengpeng