Automation insulates work on Qinghai-Xizang Railway

Today, a younger generation is stepping into this high-tech environment.

Hao Bin, a young railway worker who relocated to the plateau from the desert plains of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, now handles track inspections at the modernized Guanjiao Tunnel sector.

In the past, he said, senior workers had to carry tools, squat beside the rails and check the track by hand — measuring whether the two rails were properly aligned and whether the track conditions would allow trains to pass smoothly, without obvious shaking. If they found a problem, maintenance work had to follow.