Golmud

Late in the afternoon arrive in Golmud, which is a civilization center where Tibetan culture and Han culture melt each other.

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The biggest town between Golmud and the Tibetan border was the archetypal frontier community, a narrow strip of grubby buildings populated by a few hundred railway workers, soldiers, truck drivers, and the providers of the services they sought: gas stations, restaurants, open-air pool tables, rough beds, and a brothel.

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Before setting off, we asked to be taken to the closest thing the city had to a museum, the former home of General Mu Shengzhong, who oversaw the construction of the road from Golmud to Lhasa in 1954.

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But it was not just the arrival of the train that forced the Tibetans in Golmud to give up their old way of life.

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Almost as soon as I set out on the road that General Mu built, I saw a jarring sight: row upon row of freshly painted blue and gray single-story buildings in the middle of an otherwise empty and dusty plain outside Golmud.

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About 10,000 residents from the city of Golmud in Qinghai province were eva cuated to temporary camp sites as rescuers began to build a channel for draining the overflowing Wenquan reservoir.

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Ninety percent of the buildings in Golmud have been destroyed.

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With the addition of potash production and oil drilling, Golmud had expanded rapidly to become the second-biggest city in Qinghai Province.

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Ninety percent of the buildings in Golmud have been destroyed.

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Flanked by mountains, Golmud appeared as much of a dead end as the ocean.

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