Geku railway is a planned railway connecting Golmud

Golmud

Golmud , sometimes transliterated as Ge'ermu or Geermu, is a county-level city in Qinghai Province, Western China. Administrated by Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, it is the second largest city in Qinghai and the third largest in the Tibetan Plateau . The population is now about...

 and Korla

Korla

-Economy:Korla has long been the biggest centre in the region after Karashahr itself, having abundant water and extensive farmlands, as well as controlling the main routes to the south and west of Karashahr. Due to the discovery of oil in the Taklamakan Desert, Korla is now both more populous and...

, in China

China

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. Construction work is set to begin in the second half of 2011. The railway is scheduled to open in the first half of 2016. The length of the line is 1182.487 kilometers. 501.497 kilometers is in Qinghai province and 680.99 kilometers in Xinjiang. The investment is estimated to be CN¥36.728 billion.