“For the first time, I feel home is not that far away after all，”

　　said Liang Shaofu as he boarded a high­speed train in Urumqi with six members of his family.

　　The 35­year­old left Lanzhou to set up a dry fruit business in Xinjiang eight years ago, and he has now settled in Urumqi.

　　The 1,776­km line, which passes through Qinghai Province and is the country's first high­speed railway to be built in a high­altitude region, came into service on Dec. 26.

　　“We normally drive home for Spring Festival to avoid the difficulties of buying seven train tickets for the whole family during the peak season，”

　　Liang said.

　　“Driving can be very tiring and dangerous sometimes, so one year we even decided not to go back to Lanzhou simply to avoid the trip.”

　　More than 600,000 passengers traveled on the line during its first month, and the Urumqi Railway Bureau said the introduction of high­speed services will ease transport pressure during the Spring Festival peak season.

　　The existing usual railway line could no longer support Xinjiang's development. All passenger

　　trains will gradually shift to the new link, leaving the old one to be used for goods. As a result, Xinjiang's annual goods ability could reach 200 million metric tons from the current 70 million.

　　The line passes through areas that experience high winds, and it also crosses parts of the deserted Qinghai­Tibet Plateau and the bone­dry sands of the Gobi Desert.

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