Train rolls into Xinjiang's isolated Lop Nur region
By Xinhua in Lop Nur, Xinjiang | China Daily | Updated: 2012-11-30 02:51
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The ruins of Loulan, an ancient city on the Silk Road, in Lop Nur, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in October 2005. Peng Tong / for China Daily |
A train entered Lop Nur in remote Northwest China on Thursday, marking the operation of the first railway connecting the sparsely populated region to the rest of China.
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