On January 4th, 2017, in Lhasa, a train bound for Tibet traveled into the distance, running on the snowy plateau railway. Photo/ VCG

Beijing, July 3 (Youth.cn) -On July 1st, 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was fully operational, creating a miracle in the history of railway construction worldwide. It broke the transportation bottleneck that hindered the development of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and ended the history of Tibet being without a railway. Over the past 17 years, this high-altitude railway, which is the highest, longest, and fastest in the world, has transported a total of 273 million passengers and 8.42 billion tons of goods. Starting from July 1st, 2023, the Fuxing Electric Multiple Unit, with a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, will officially operate on the Xining to Golmud section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, marking the era of high-speed trains on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.