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Ｍｉｎｉｓｔｅｒ　ｏｎ　Ｂｕｉｌｄｉｎｇ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　Ｑｉｎｇｈａｉ－Ｔｉｂｅｔ　Ｒａｉｌｗａｙ 　　Editors Note:Sun Yongfu is now vice-minister of railways. In 1962, when he graduated from the Department of Bridges and Tunnels of the Changsha Railway Institute of Hunan Province, he was assigned to work in the Zhengzhou Railway Bureau. In a survey of the bearing capacity of railway bridges, he examined bridges one by one from Zhengzhou in Henan Province to Wuhan in Hubei Province. On this basis, he produced the studies that made him famous and led to his promotion as one of the senior technical personnel. In the ensuing years, he participated in construction of a number of railways, including the Sichuan-Guizhou, Guizhou-Kunming, Chengdu-Kunming and Hunan-Guizhou lines. He also participated in the China-aided construction of the railway between Tanzania and Zambia. In 1984, Sun was promoted to be vice-minister of railways and was put in charge of national planning and construction. He presided over the construction of some 10,000 km of trunk line, including the Beijing-Kowloon, Datong-Qinhuangdao, Nanning-Kunming and Hengyang-Guangzhou railways. In early 2001, Premier Zhu Rongji proposed Sun to be the deputy head of the leading group for the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, taking charge of the routine work. In the document Premier Zhu signed, Sun was allowed to enjoy treatment due to a minister (instead of a vice-minister). On June 29, 2001, when the inauguration ceremony for construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was held in Lhasa, Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo told all present: He [Sun] is the commander-in-chief in charge of construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway! In the following five years, Sun visited the highlands dozens of times. Under his care, the builders paid special attention to environmental protection while building the railway which is a wonder of the world in terms of elevation and length. During the period, he made further progress in academic field and eventually was accepted as a Me