About this place

Xining is the capital city of Qinghai Province. It has a history of more than 2100 years , acting as a major stopover and trade center on the ancient Tang-Tibet Road and Silk Road. Xining is also called the "ancient city on the plateau". Honored as an excellent tourist city in China, Xining has been facilitated with great traffic means such as civil aviation , railways, high-speed and high grade highways. The well-known Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the predominant way to Lhasa. The urban infrastructure is continually functioning and being strengthened. If you fly to Qinghai from anywhere in the country, on average it takes less than three hours. As Qinghai's center of politics, economy, culture, science and communication, Xining has become the largest modern city in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.