CHINA-XINJIANG-DESERT RAIL LOOP-HOTAN-RUOQIANG RAILWAY-INAUGURATION (CN)

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(220616) -- HOTAN, June 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Sept. 4, 2019 shows the construction site of the Hotan-Ruoqiang Railway in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The last section of a 2,712-km rail loop line around China's largest desert, the Taklimakan, in the country's northwesternmost Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was put into operation on Thursday. The opening of the Hotan-Ruoqiang rail line will enable trains to skirt a full circle around a desert for the first time in the world, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway). (Xinhua)

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