On Jan 1, China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. announced that as of Dec 31, 2022, its freight volume in the year had exceeded 80 million tons, of which 5.6 million tons were transported to and from the Tibet autonomous region.

In 2022, the group mainly transported chemical fertilizers, salt, coal, gold, petroleum and chemicals. The shipments of gold, industrial salt, chemicals and containers throughout the year increased by 22 percent, 16.7 percent, 49.1 percent and 9.5 percent respectively from the same period of the previous year.

The group has implemented the strategy of "replacing passengers with goods" in 2022, making full use of transportation capacity vacated by suspension of passenger trains to transport cargoes for large industrial and mining enterprises. It also monitored and coordinated the transportation and production of chemicals, salt, petroleum and other bulk cargo from enterprises under its administration, made every effort to ensure the supply of raw materials and smooth flow of production materials in key enterprises, and helped enterprises solve practical difficulties in stabilizing and increasing production.

At the same time, with focus on "replacing road transport with railway transport", the group explored and tapped the transportation potential, organized full-scale operation, accelerated locomotive turnover, and maximized railway capacity, as the transport volume of the Dunhuang and Geku lines is increasing year by year. It also made full use of information technologies to strengthen the monitoring and management of the entire process of cargo transportation, overseeing every procedure and following the time limit of every cargo transportation in real time, to improve the efficiency of transportation management and fully guarantee smooth railway transport.

As of now, the group has launched the China-Europe freight trains to Russia and Belgium, the China-Central Asia freight train to Kazakhstan. It also operates the "road-rail combined freight transport" to South Asia that runs through Shigatse West Station, Geelong Port and Zhangmu Port, and arrives in Nepal. In the first half of 2022, the line to South Asia completed the first freight transport between China and Laos.