People are seen on a path through dense trees in urban Golmud, northwest China's Qinghai Province, April 2, 2011. Golmud, founded in the Qaidam Basin in 1954, with an average altitude of around 3,000 meters, nowadays has grown up to a traffic hub and freight station for railways and roads traveling between Qinghai and its neiboring Tibet Automous Region. After the rapid development since 2006 when the Qinghai-Tibet railway was opened, the emerging city has become the third largest city on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with a population of 270,000, ranking behind Xining and Lhasa. [Xinhua/Chogo]