Commission, the per capita disposable income in Golmud was 6,852 yuan in the first quarter of 2017, a 9.3% increase from the one year prior. Golmud has been one of the areas included in China's Targeted Poverty Alleviation program, which the Commission states has entailed the reconstruction of houses in the city with subpar living conditions, and subsidizing low-income students in the city. The Commission also states that the government has been developing the production of traditional woodworking, embroidery, and other local crafts through designated "demonstration areas" (). Statistics for 2001 show that the city's nominal GDP totaled 2.213 billion RMB, a rise of 31.9% from the previous year and the highest growth rate since 1990. Transportation Railway Golmud lies along the Qinghai–Tibet railway, a railway that starts from Xining and ends at Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The Golmud-Lhasa section, with a length of , was the last and most challenging part of the railway to be completed. After five years of construction, the first train for Lhasa left Golmud on 1 July 2006. In October 2012 construction started on the Golmud–Dunhuang Railway. It will actually branch off the Qinghai–Tibet Railway at the Yinmaxia station north of Golmud, and will cross the Qaidam Basin and the Altyn-Tagh/Qilian system on the way to Dunhuang in the neighboring Gansu province. The Golmud-Korla Railway running north west from Golmud into Korla, Xinjiang began construction in November 2014 and was completed in 2020. Highways The Golmud-Lhasa highway, extending , is part of the 1,930-km Qinghai-Tibet highway (China National Highway 109) connecting Xining and Lhasa. China National Highway 215, runs north from Golmud to Dunhuang, Gansu Airport Golmud Airport Twin cities Bharatpur, Nepal Dobrich, Bulgaria Kiryat Malakhi, Israel In popular culture The Golmud Railway is featured as an online multiplayer map in the video game Battlefield 4. References Citations Bibliography . . External links Official website (Chinese) Cities in Qinghai Populated places in Tibet Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture