Train rolls into Xinjiang's isolated Lop Nur region
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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