States were to sell the land and use the money to establish colleges to teach agriculture, engineering and military science.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Modernity, they proudly and not uncontroversially say, has arrived in this backward region in the form of an engineering miracle that has laid tracks on land gripped year-round by ice, a railway line at higher altitude than any other in the world.

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"Hopewell misjudged the speed of major civil engineering construction in China, the complexities of land acquisition and budgeting, " says Michael Green of Nomura Research Institute.

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Once all the engineering, accounting and legal obstacles are cleared away, the land is scoured for possible archaeological remains.

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