CHINA-XINJIANG-TAKLIMAKAN DESERT-NEW HIGHWAY (CN)

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(220630) -- YULI, June 30, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows one section of a new highway traversing the Taklimakan Desert under construction on May 17, 2020 (top, photo taken by Hu Huhu) and the same section after construction on June 24, 2022 (photo taken by Li Xiang), in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in south Xinjiang's Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, the highway, connecting Yuli County and Qiemo County, was put into operation on Thursday. The highway is the third one across the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting-sand desert. With a designed speed of 60 or 80 km per hour for different sections, the highway has a total length of 334 km, with 307 km passing through the desert. So far, China has more than 1,200 km of highways across the Taklimakan Desert. The highway has been built with an estimated total investment of about 1.75 billion yuan (about 261.5 million U.S. dollars) and its construction started in October 2017. (Xinhua)

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