Rail project benefits few Tibetans

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Few Tibetans have been hired to construct a new rail line to China, and some fear unemployment will worsen once the line opens Tibet to Chinese job seekers

Under a blistering Himalayan sun, 500 workers are completing the Lhasa River Bridge, part of a 1,142km project that will link Tibet by rail to the outside world for the first time.
Remarkably for a project that will supposedly bring new hope and opportunity to the local economy once it becomes operational in 2007, only a tiny number of the 500 people toiling on the 929m bridge are Tibetan.

Hiring practices

"Very few of the people employed here are ethnic Tibetans," said Wang Weidao, chief engineer on the bridge. "They don't have the technical training needed for the task."

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