More than 100 kilometers from Xining City along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is Haiyan County of Qinghai's Haibei Tibet Autonomous Prefecture.

After it became China's nuclear bomb and H-bomb test site, this place has been veiled in mystery. Haiyan has been unknown for its remote location. After it was announced to be China's nuclear bomb and H-bomb test site in 1992, this county has witnessed accelerating development.

Nowadays, urban construction here has taken initial shape, while nuclear bomb, H-bomb and the well-known folk song "In a place far far away" are gradually becoming its name cards. At the nuclear bomb and H-bomb test site, a tour guide said, "At present this place receives 100 to 200 visitors every day. After the Qinghai-Tibet Railway opens to traffic, hooting trains will bring more visitors here." China National Environmental Monitoring Center under the State Environmental Protection Administration and the nuclear industry committee will separately monitor the radiation status here every year.

Local tourism bureau director said, "It is absolutely unnecessary for some tourists to worry about radiation. There used to be a railway that connected the test site to Shangxing Station which was specially built for transporting nuclear bomb. We will change the section to Shangxing Station on Qinghai-Tibet Railway into a special tourism line so that visitors can look around the entire test site on a sight-seeing train."

(Chinanews.cn June 19, 2006)