Xining, Xinhua News Agency, January 1 (Reporter Wang Hu) The reporter learned from the China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group that as of December 31, 2023, a total of 295 passengers entering and leaving Tibet through the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in 202390,000 passengers, including 153 tourists entering Tibet30,000 passengers, 142 passengers out of Tibet60,000 people, 36 more than in 201860,000 person-times, 2660,000 and 1010,000 passengers, a record high since the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was opened to traffic 17 years ago.
It is understood that the Qinghai-Tibet Group Company has adopted the form of combining the Fuxing Plateau internal electric dual-source power EMU with ordinary speed trains to further improve the capacity layout between Lhasa, Nyingchi and Shigatse. In 2023, a total of 1,107 temporary passenger trains will be operated in and out of Tibet, and 624 and 738 temporary passenger trains will be added to the Lalin Railway and Lari Railway respectively, and the trains in and out of Tibet can maintain 9 pairs per day during peak hours.
In addition, the Qinghai-Tibet Group Company and the participating units have successively completed the turnout replacement and signal system renovation project of the Gela section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and the quality improvement project of the Xige section, which further strengthened the line strength and equipment and facilities foundation of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and comprehensively improved the safety, reliability, comfort and anti-risk ability of railway operation. Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. also combined with the construction of "smart Tianlu", the first unmanned station management method in the whole road, and comprehensively used a series of remote intelligent monitoring and automatic operation systems such as first-class monitoring, natural disaster monitoring, snow melting control, etc., to monitor the status of equipment in an all-round way, and better ensure the driving safety and running speed of the frozen soil section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. (ENDS).