China Daily (August 6) reported that the 9,240-meter Bukamu Tunnel, located in Manling county of the region's eastern Nyingchi city, has been completed. According to the China Railway 17th Bureau Group, and it is the 37th tunnel to be completed for this section, leaving 10 other tunnels to be finished by the end of the year. They added that most of the tunnels along the Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway have been completed.

(Comment: The 2,416 kilometer long Sichuan-Tibet Railway connects Southwest China's Sichuan province with the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is the second railway linking Tibet with the rest of the world, along with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.)