{"id":138216,"date":"2025-10-12T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138216"},"modified":"2025-10-12T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:00:14","slug":"what-makes-the-xinjiang-tibet-mega-railway-chinas-project-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138216","title":{"rendered":"What makes the Xinjiang-Tibet mega railway China\u2019s \u2018project of the century\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostConstruction is set to begin next month on a monumental railway linking Hotan in Xinjiang with Lhasa in Tibet \u2013 one of China\u2019s most ambitious infrastructure projects to date.<br \/>\nThe 1,980km (1,230 miles) line has been dubbed one of the \u201cprojects of the century\u201d for the extreme engineering challenges it presents and the massive investment required. Traversing mountain ranges, glaciers and permafrost zones at altitudes averaging above 4,500 metres (14,764 feet), it will connect the two autonomous&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3328547\/what-makes-xinjiang-tibet-mega-railway-chinas-project-century?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostConstruction is set to begin next month on a monumental railway linking Hotan in Xinjiang with Lhasa in Tibet \u2013 one of China\u2019s most&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}