Source: Onoodor            June 11, 2010

It appears from informal conversations with government officials that in the event of Mongolia deciding to build a narrow-gauge railway to help export its mineral resources, through ports in either Russia or China or both, mostly Chinese people would be holding all the technical jobs on it. This is because our railway technicians lack the skills and training to operate a system they are not used to, and the new railway, if it is built, will be using up-to-date world standards. These standards are way beyond those used in the railways of Mongolia and the Russian Federation. It will take time before there is a sufficient number of Mongolians who have mastered 21st-century concepts of radio communication and electronics.