She is so broad, the source of the Yangtze River, the towering Kunlun, the roof of the world and the top of the earth are all in her arms; She looks so unattainable again. How many people gave her flesh and blood with passion and dreams, and let her soul roam between the sacred snow-capped mountains and the blue sky.
But today, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is so close to us.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which will be officially opened to traffic on July 1, is like an artery on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and has started to beat vigorously. After five years of construction, it stretches inch by inch, slowly and persistently, bringing the distant snowy plateau closer to us.
Like fate, the railway crossing the roof of the world into Tibet is destined to be a historic event. This huge project, which is rare in the world, will be bound to be linked with the national movement of the Chinese nation, with unspeakable symbols and symbolic significance.
As early as more than 100 years ago, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of China's democratic revolution, made up his mind to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and wrote his grand blueprint for saving the country and strengthening the country-People's Republic of China (PRC)'s founding strategy.
Since the founding of New China, laying railway tracks on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has become the focus of decision-making of several generations of people's Republic. From 65438 to 0958, the first phase of Qinghai-Tibet Railway-Xining-Golmud section started construction. In the following decades, limited by economic strength and technical problems such as plateau and frozen soil, Golmud became the stop of this new road.
At the beginning of the new century, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council made a strategic decision to build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway after careful argumentation. On June 29th, 20001year, the second phase of Golmud-Lhasa project was officially started. The total length of the project is 1 142 km, and the planned investment is 26.2 billion yuan. June 65438+1October 65438+February 2005, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the highest plateau frozen soil railway in the world, was fully laid and will soon be put into operation.
In the hands of our generation, the heavenly road has finally been opened, the holy city has finally drawn closer, and the history of Tibet being closed to railways has officially ended. Taking this as a symbol, all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China are connected by railways.
From the * * * of the party and the country to the battle-hardened old generals; It is several generations of decision-makers and builders who have made a century-old dream come true, from young scientific and technological personnel to sturdy road builders.
The once isolated plateau has since been connected with the railway network extending in all directions of the motherland. This 1000 km railway is not only an extension of the tracks, but also a leap in engineering technology, and a leap in national construction and national rejuvenation.
It was once predicted by foreigners that China could not build the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in 100. Indeed, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the plateau railway with the highest altitude, the longest route and the longest mileage across frozen soil in the world. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs from Xining to Lhasa 1956 km, including Xining to Golmud and Golmud to Lhasa. The Golmud-Lhasa section of Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the plateau railway with the highest altitude and the longest route in the world, and it is the most challenging project in the history of railway construction in the world.
The section from Xining to Golmud is 8 14km long and was put into operation on 1984. It's a single-track railway, and the second line is under construction and electrified.
The total length of Golmud-Lhasa section is 1 142 km, and the construction length of the new line is110km. After the railway is led out from Golmud Station, it goes south through Xidatan, Wudaoliang, Tuotuo River and Yanshiping, crosses Tanggula Pass and enters Xizang Autonomous Region. On the way, it passes through the Tanggula Mountain no man's land between Wenquan and Amdo 134km, and then passes through Amdo, Naqu, Dangxiong and Yangbajing to Lhasa. The highest point of the railway crossing Tanggula Mountain is 5072 meters above sea level, 960 kilometers above sea level and more than 550 kilometers in frozen soil area. As you can imagine, in front of Tianlu, every inch of railway tracks embodies excellent economic strength and excellent scientific and technological ability, as well as the dedication and sacrifice of thousands of builders in Qian Qian.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway runs through Qinghai-Tibet provinces, crosses the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and reaches the southwest frontier of China. It is a strategic railway trunk line connecting Tibet with the mainland, the most convenient land passage from Lhasa to Beijing, Northwest China, North China and the Central Plains, and the fastest passage to the South Asian subcontinent. As early as June 5438+ 10, 2005, more than 200 trains and vehicles loaded with rice, flour, coal, steel, fertilizer and other aid materials successfully arrived in Lhasa, sending the warm friendship of the whole people to the hands of Tibetan compatriots.
The opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is of great strategic significance to China's national security and territorial integrity, and it is also of great political, historical, ethnic and economic significance. It can be said that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a "Heavenly Road", "Century Road", "Dedication Road", "Science Road" and "golden road", which will bring great-leap-forward development opportunities to the economy along the railway.
We are journalists. When history is stirred, our sense of professional responsibility and mission drives us to approach it, touch it, witness it, record it and spread it. Facing this magnificent epic in the history of China's development, we listened carefully to the stories of the witnesses and devotees, recorded a string of glowing memories treasured in their hearts, and wrote down the magnificent soul of our nation.
To this end, we set up a reporting team of nearly 30 people, including more than a dozen writers and photographers, and went out of Beijing and onto the plateau to find those decision makers, designers and builders who witnessed the hardships of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway step by step, feel the heat left by their hard work and appreciate the glory they created with their lives.
During the interview, the reporters also experienced a baptism of life and a forging of spirit. They trekked thousands of kilometers, crossed the no-man's land, bumped on the plateau, and experienced thin air and a splitting headache. The reporters stayed in a "three-star hotel"-a wooden house heated by a roadside coal stove, which suffered from carbon monoxide pollution in an oxygen-deficient environment, not to mention the heavy snow in May and the severe cold in June on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
What is all this compared with the hardships experienced by the builders of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway? It is because of all this that our reporters have a deeper understanding of their interviewees and have the truest feelings about the fighting spirit shown by the builders. This is also a spiritual purification and spiritual promotion for journalists.
The construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is a magnificent epic, and we are ashamed that we can't have the same brushwork as poets to engrave it. Besides, any language is so pale and powerless compared with the ambition, will, effort and sweat that have risen in the whole project. We can only walk on the cold and steep land with our own feet and feel the vigorous and increasingly quiet ordinary life with our own hearts.
We feel a kind of heroism in the bullfighting: a large number of construction and scientific and technological personnel of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, sons who can't be filial before their parents' beds, sons and daughters who are "strangers", young people who melt their flesh and blood in the snow, and old generals who scatter ashes on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. This railway is clearly a road full of dedication;
We feel the power of independent innovation: frozen soil, the challenge of climbing mountains and mountains, the difficulty of construction under cold and oxygen-deficient conditions, the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness, the introduction of new trains and so on. And there are countless proud scientific and technological achievements in the face of countless world-class problems;
We feel an unspeakable expectation: the railway has been built and the development stage has been set up, but how can the regional economy along the line span? How can economic development and natural environment coexist harmoniously? How to realize people's all-round development? There are still a series of problems before the southwest people.
We feel a far-sighted worry: can the fragile plateau ecosystem carry the "railway", a giant Tibetan antelope, and will the migration route be interrupted? Will the pure plateau environment change? Are our countermeasures comprehensive?
We are experiencing it all the time. We walked along the tracks past the 1 1 station of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, came to the workers' houses, walked into the families of Tibetan residents, set foot on the peak of the forbidden zone of life, walked through the sacred lake of snowy mountains where Tibetan antelopes and wild wolves swam, and even "hung out" with the railway minister to experience the Qinghai-Tibet Line on the trial train. Golmud, Mount Everest, Ice Spring, Wudaoliang, Tuotuo, Tanggula, Amdo, Naqu, Dangxiong, Yangbajing and Lhasa, these pearls strung on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, will show their mysterious and charming charm one by one.
We will sing a heartfelt hymn for this century. When you take the train, cross the snow-capped mountains on the Qianli Plateau, and finally "return to Lhasa and Potala", look back at the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the plateau lifeline forged by these generations of builders and their relatives with hard work, sweat, tears and life. I'm sure you will be excited about it.