The Lijiang–Shangri-La Railway or Lixiang Railway (simplified Chinese: 丽香铁路; traditional Chinese: 麗香鐵路; pinyin: lìxiāng tiělù), is a railroad planned to be built in Yunnan Province of Southwest China. The shorthand name of the line is named after its two proposed terminal cities, Lijiang and Shangri-La County (formerly known as Zhongdian), romanized in Chinese as Xianggelila.
The line is slated to run 139 km (86 mi) from Lijiang, the rail head of the Dali-Lijiang Railway, north to Shangri-La in northwestern Yunnan.[1] Despite approval of the project's feasibility plans by the National Development and Reform Commission in May 2009, construction has not begun as of March 2011.[2][3] Construction is expected to require four years.[1]