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Tibets highway construction support the development of tourism

Actively adjust Tibet road transport structure and increase tourism hot line and shuttle vehicles, after actively foster and standardize continue to develop road transport

Recently, this reporter learned from the autonomous region Communications Department, 2007, the building of Tibets rapid development of road traffic, effectively promoted the rapid development of the tourism industry.

The person in charge of the regional Communications Department, at present, Sichuan-Tibet Highway (State Road 318 lines) in the Tibet section of more than 80 percent black to achieve, the main artery of transportation southeast Tibet has been further improved access conditions; Lhasa to Golmud of Qinghai-Tibet highway built all the standard 2 Circuit basically Chaofaxizhi; Ali to Lhasa, the time required shortened from five days to two days, the first door Road area, the Gonggar Airport - two bridges through a tunnel after all, his itinerary is not super-1 Hours will be to Dala Sa. The rapid development of road transport, basic to the operation of Qinghai-Tibet railway, Nyingchi airport and navigation Nathu La border trade and open new situation, to vigorously develop the tourism industry has created good conditions.

2007, Tibet has actively adjusted the structure of road transport and increase tourism hot line and shuttle vehicles, after actively foster and standardize continue to vigorously develop the road transport industry to ensure that passenger travel market stability. At present, Tibet has civilian vehicles of more than 150,000 passenger classes of 278, county-level coverage to 98.6 percent, township passenger coverage of 47 percent. After the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, a substantial increase in tourists to Tibet, to ensure the tourism market supply and demand balance, from 2006, the batches were run tourist bus 1315, the new Class 22,816, updated 200 vehicles, a total of tourism in Tibet 2777 passenger vehicles to ensure that the market and the needs of visitors to Tibet. According to statistics, 2007, the number of tourists in Tibet is expected to reach 4.02 million passengers, nearly 70 percent growth in tourism revenues to 70 percent above the rate of growth, income growth exceeding the number of tourism growth, showing a super-conventional, blow-out Development trend.

An increase in road transport capacity at the same time, Tibet highway traffic management departments to strengthen the conservation and create safe tourist external environment. Since June 1, 2004 launch a comprehensive security projects, in the security, economic, practical, according to local conditions, the principle of 160 million yuan investment, the province of Route 17 and County Circuit focus on three sections of the implementation of the road safety Protection project to deal with diseases and potential safety problems 2,300 km, 12,000. The implementation of these projects to ensure that the main highway in the countrys security blocked, effectively curb the serious and vicious road accident, won the praise of the community and improve the tourist passenger safety.

It is understood, as at present, the opening of the total mileage of highways in Tibet reached 48,600 kilometers, 4,714 kilometers of asphalt pavement, 7 prefectures and cities in five cities, 73 counties in the 43-county Circuit, Tibet has 612 towns and 3,525 Formed The highway villages, towns, villages formed Highway rate reached 89.6% and 59.7%, County-Circuit rate of 58.9 percent. An East of Sichuan, Yunnan, west of Xinjiang, Qinghai with the North, Nanlin India, Nepal, the local provincial highway connected to the same city, county and township roads connecting the transport network was basically completed.