GOLMUD China (AFP) — China has expanded the world's highest railway.

GOLMUD China (AFP) — China has expanded the world's highest railway, linking the unconnected unrelated Himalayan region of Tibet with the stay of the country in a emblem of power that President Hu Jintao hailed a "miracle".

Hu launched the rail line at the mountain outpost of Golmud in China's far northwestern Qinghai province, with the fact held to coincide with the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

"The intend is not only a magnificent feat in China's history of railway construction, it is also a great miracle for the world," Hu said in succession Saturday, as hundreds of railway workers and rule officials applauded.

He then chop a ceremonial red ribbon as the first train with 900 passengers upon board departed at 11:05 am (0305 GMT) for the 1,142-kilometer (708-mile) trip to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.

Another train departed