More radio links...
Here is an excellent piece on China's new rail line to Tibet.
Talk about manifestation of power! Taking on the Tibetan Plateau is pretty ambitious. However, this project seems to fit nicely into some of China's past ambitious projects.

Interestingly, the journalist compares this project to the Transcontinental RR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6110657