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- Tibet residents satisfied with environment protection along railway
Date: 7-Jun-2007 Sources: (Xinhua Online)
An overwhelming majority of residents of Tibet say they are satisfied with environmental protection along the Qinghai-Tibet railway, an opinion poll shows.
The poll, conducted by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), shows 96.9 percent of Tibet residents interviewed expressed their satisfaction with environmental protection.
The SEPA conducted the poll in Qinghai and Tibet during the past year in collaboration with China Academy of Railway Sciences, the Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tibet Environmental Monitoring Center.
'The railway did not affect our pasture. It has special passages for Tibetan antelope and other animals, which is very good,' said Cering, a herdsman in Golmud, Qinghai.
The landscape, lakes and the frozen earth are well preserved and the wildlife's migration remains unchanged, said a panel of officials and experts from SEPA and the Ministry of Railways based on their continuous monitoring and observation of the Golmud to Lhasa section of the rail line.
'We have set up a long-term monitoring system for water, air, noise and ecology in the hope of assessing the environment at all times,' said Zhang Tianhua, vice head of the environmental protection bureau in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway stretches 1,956 kilometers from Qinghai's provincial capital Xining to Lhasa. Construction of the section from Golmud to Lhasa started on June 29, 2001 and was completed on July 1, 2006, at a cost of more than 33 billion yuan.
The 1.5-billion-yuan was spent to ensure the environment, accounting for about 4.6 percent of the total cost of the rail line, a record in the history of China's railway construction.
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