China for the first time on December 28, 2016, transported 1,890 tonnes of bottled water in 35 carriages from Tibet to Ningbo in China’s Zhejiang Province. Xinhua described it as the first of a regular set of cargo trains to bring bottled drinking water from Tibet to China’s inland areas. It said there are plans to run trains between Lhasa and other cities such as Beijing, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Lanzhou. A local official was quoted as saying the new trains will facilitate trade in areas along the railway route and help Tibet shift its resource advantages into economic ones.