Nyima will always remember the hardship he and his fellow villagers endured when his home county was isolated from the outside world because there were no proper roads.
Passengers carrying luggage of varying sizes, many in Tibetan costumes, chats with each other or buries themselves in their phones while queueing on the platform for their trains.
More than 26,300 rural residents of 6,306 households from high altitudes in the Tibet autonomous region will be relocated to the Sinpori site in Lhokha before Aug 11, Tibet Daily reported.
A total of 17,555 people will be relocated away from high-altitude places in Nagqu city, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, thanks to a local program to improve people's living and protect the plateau region's fragile ecosystem.
Since it began operations a year ago, Tibet's first electrified railway has facilitated about 1.14 million passenger trips and has hauled 47,800 metric tons of cargo.
Construction of the first observatory in the Tibet autonomous region kicked off this week, following a foundation stone-laying ceremony on Sunday for what is said to be the highest observatory in the world.
