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The official Xinhua news agency said the line, with an estimated cost of 12 billion dollars, was among a host of major rail projects included in the country's draft 2001-2005 five-year economic plan. "The construction of several major railways, including the Qinghai-Tibet railroad and Beijing-Shanghai high speed railway line will be carried out in the next five years," said Xinhua. The agency said seven vertical and seven horizontal railway lines had been outlined in a draft of the plan presented to this week's meeting of the National People's Congress, China's parliament. There is already intense competition between international consortiums to be involved in the lucrative contract for the 1,300-kilometer (810-mile) line linking China's two largest cities. German consortium Transrapid International, made up of Siemens and ThyssenKrupp, signed a contract last month to build a 31-kilometer (19-mile) line linking Shanghai's Pudong airport with the city center. The contract was seen as a major victory for Transrapid, which had never made a commercial sale of its magnetic levitation (Maglev) technology, and put it in pole position to bid for the larger project. The Maglev technology, in development since 1969, is based on the principle of increasing speed by reducing the friction encountered by standard transport, sending trains zipping along on a one-centimeter electromagnetic cushion. Transrapid is competing with the Eurotrain consortium, made up of Germany's Siemens and Alstom of France, and the Japanese Shinkansen consortium, comprising firms including Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Nippon Steel Corp. The other major railway project approved in the draft plan is the controversial 1,108 kilometer (700-mile) line linking the Tibetan plateau with the rest of China, set to be dubbed the highest railway in the world. The railway will stretch from Golmud in Qinghai province southward to Lhasa, capital of the Tibetan Autonomus Region with around 80 percent to be built at an altitude of 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) or higher. The construction of a railway to Tibet has been a Chinese ambition since the 1950s, but the plan was not realized due to the unique difficulties of altitude and terrain. Tibet at present can only be accessed by air or via tortuous roads. Mit den Websites www.china-net.de und www.chinaweb.de stehen neue Informationsquellen für die Beratung und Projektentwicklung zur Verfügung, die genutzt werden sollten. China auf dem Weg in die WTO: Eine Wirtschafts Woche – Exklusivstudie zeigt, was sich für deutsche Unternehmen in den wichtigsten Branchen ändert. Berlin:
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China said Monday it was committed to building a high-speed rail
link between Beijing and the eastern port of Shanghai in the next
five years.
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