摘要
Communications plays a vital role in the economic and social development of a region. Backward communications and transport in old Tibet seriously hampered political, economic and cultural exchanges between Tibetan people and people of other ethnic groups in the hinterland as well as shackled the emancipation and development of productive forces in Tibet. After the founding of New China in 1949, the state spent 224 million yuan building Qinghai-Tibet and Sichuan-Tibet highways, ending the history of Tibet as a place without a regular highway. In the following years the state successively built a number of trunk roads that connect Tibet with Xinjiang. Tibet with Yunnan domestically, and China with Nepal internationally, in addition to numerous county and village roads, giving rise to the emergence of a preliminary regional highway network. In the meantime, an oil pipeline linking Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, with Golmud, a city in Qinghai province, was built and an air route over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau opened to traffic. At long last, Tibet began to be served by a modern communications and transport system, in which road transport played the main role while air traffic and pipeline transport played supplementary roles. With the Qinghai-Tibet Railway soon to be completed and commissioned,
Communications plays a vital role in the economic and social development of a region. Backward communications and transport in old Tibet seriously hampered political, economic and cultural exchanges between Tibetan people and people of other ethnic groups in the hinterland as well as shackled the emancipation and development of productive forces in Tibet. After the founding of New China in 1949, the state spent 224 million yuan building Qinghai-Tibet and Sichuan-Tibet highways, ending the history of Tibet as a place without a regular highway. In the following years the state successively built a number of trunk roads that connect Tibet with Xinjiang. Tibet with Yunnan domestically, and China with Nepal internationally, in addition to numerous county and village roads, giving rise to the emergence of a preliminary regional highway network. In the meantime, an oil pipeline linking Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, with Golmud, a city in Qinghai province, was built and an air route over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau opened to traffic. At long last, Tibet began to be served by a modern communications and transport system, in which road transport played the main role while air traffic and pipeline transport played supplementary roles. With the Qinghai-Tibet Railway soon to be completed and commissioned,
