Editing Xining (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:Street of Xining.jpg|thumb|Jianguo Avenue in Xining, prior to 2013 reconstruction of the railway station]]
Xining is situated in a fertile mountain basin in the valley of the Huangshui (river), a tributary of the Yellow River, that acts as a river port. The city lies about {{convert|200|km|abbr=on}} west of [[Lanzhou]], the capital of [[Gansu]] province, on what was traditionally the main trade route from [[Northern and southern China|northern China]] into [[Tibet]] and the [[Qaidam Basin]]. These routes are now followed by modern [[highway]]s.

===Railway===
[[File:Xining railway station indoors.jpg|thumb|Inside the [[Xining railway station]]]]
Since 1959 [[Xining railway station|Xining station]] has been connected by the [[Lanzhou–Qinghai Railway]] to [[Rail transport in China|China's railway network]]. Later, this railway was extended into the Qaidam area via [[Haiyan County, Qinghai|Haiyan]] near [[Qinghai Lake]] to [[Golmud]], and, since 2006, to [[Lhasa]], [[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]]. (See the [[Qinghai–Tibet Railway]]).

The second major railway serving Xining is the [[Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway]], opened in December 2014. When first opened, it just provided high-speed train service to Lanzhou and [[Urumqi]] (and points in between). With the opening of the [[Baoji–Lanzhou high-speed railway]] on July 9, 2017, it has been connected to the rest of the nation's high-speed rail network.

Unlike many other Chinese cities, where the conventional and high-speed trains stop at different train stations, [[Xining railway station]] is served by both types of trains. Thus it can be used as a transfer point for e.g. a passenger traveling from [[Xinjiang]] to [[Tibet]].

===Air===
[[Xining Caojiapu International Airport]] serves the area with regularly scheduled passenger flights to major Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Kunming, Xi'an, and Wuhan.

===Highway===
* [[China National Highway 214]]
*[[China National Highway 227]]
*[[China National Highway 315]]
*[[G6 Beijing–Lhasa Expressway]]