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Engineers work on China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on January 18, 2018. The aircraft carrier, China's second following the Liaoning, is currently undergoing mooring tests after it was launched in April 2017. According to naval expert Li Jie, the aircraft carrier might conduct its first test at sea in mid-February. [Photo/IC]

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A passenger shows QR code at a metro station in east China's Shanghai, Jan 16, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Scientists from China and Pakistan take a group photo on the Chinese research vessel Shiyan 3 during a joint expedition in the Makran Trench in the northern Indian Ocean, Jan 19, 2018. Eight Pakistani scientists are on the vessel for the first joint expedition in the northern Indian Ocean. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Scientists from China and Pakistan work together on the Chinese research vessel Shiyan 3 during a joint expedition in the northern Indian Ocean, Jan 18, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Beijing's Yanqing District turned into a wonderland of ice and lights Friday night as the annual Longqing Gorge Ice Lantern Festival officially kicked off.
And this year, the festival is themed with the upcoming 2019 World Horticultural Exposition and 2022 Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital.
Yanqing is one of the three competing areas of the 2022 Beijing Games.

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Shi Zhongyin, a pupil from Qingdao Tongji Experimental School, displays the dog he paints in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 21, 2018. A talent show was held in the school to greet Chinese traditional lunar New Year -- the Year of Dog, which starts from Feb. 16.(Xinhua/Liang Xiaopeng)

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A pupil of Qingdao Tongji Experimental School displays a dog she paints in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 21, 2018.

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Pupils of Qingdao Tongji Experimental School write the Chinese character of "dog" in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 21, 2018.

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Children perform during a gala greeting the upcoming Chinese lunar New Year at a theater in Gu'an, north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 21, 2018. (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

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Candidates make their way to Beijing Dance Academy exam center in Beijing, Jan 18. [Photo/VCG]

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Candidates make their way to Nanjing University of the Arts exam center in Nanjing, Jan 18. [Photo/VCG]

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A candidate lines up before the exam in Hangzhou, Dec 22, 2017. [Photo/VCG]

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"The freight train of China Railway Express (Xiamen-Budapest), linking southeast China's port city of Xiamen with Budapest, capital of Hungary, leaves Haicang Station in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian Province, Jan. 19, 2018. The 11,595 km journey, which takes one stop at China's Xi'an, will take 18 days.(Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)"

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B.I.B. said:

It is impossible for the train to make the 18 day trip with only one stop at Xian . Apart from the border crossing where the the tracks in the Stans or Russia are a different gauge means the load has to be offloaded onto a different train or the wheel settings changed, there would also have to be crew changes.

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t2contra said:

It is possible.

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B.I.B. said:

Has it been done and how have they gotten around the problem of different track gauge?
It was about 3yrs ago whe riding the trains around Russia and Eastern Europe where some tracks can still be older I still saw the odd "wheel tapper". We even had one tap our train wheels during a longish stop.

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