China Completes 750-kV Power Transmission Loop

China Completes 750-kV Power Transmission Loop

- An aerial drone photo taken on June 14, 2025 shows a section of the 750-kilovolt transmission and transformation project around the Tarim Basin across the Qarqan River in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China has finished construction of a 4,197-km extra-high voltage power transmission loop around the Tarim Basin, home to the country's largest desert, marking a major infrastructure milestone in southern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The final section of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop, now the country's largest of its kind, was connected on Sunday, capping a 15-year project involving nine substations and nearly 10,000 steel towers, according to a subsidiary of State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., which constructed the project. Photo by Ma Yuan/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

6,000 common cranes spotted in China's Qiemo County for wintering

STORY: 6,000 common cranes spotted in China's Qiemo County for wintering DATELINE: Dec. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:42 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of common cranes on Qarqan River STORYLINE: More than 6,000 common cranes have been spotted in Qiemo County in China's Xinjiang for wintering. Large flocks of the birds were first spotted in the region in early 2021. This winter, the number of common cranes in the county is three times that of last winter. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CAI CIKE, Bureau of Natural Resources in Qiemo County in Xinjiang, China "Qiemo County has been pressing ahead with environmental protection, and water has been supplied to the downstream via the Dashimen water conservancy project. These have led to a notable improvement in the ecology in Qiemo, which provides a safe habitat for wild birds." The common crane is a second class nationally protected wildlife in China. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Urumqi, China. (XHTV)

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

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

(220616) -- HOTAN, June 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on May 18, 2022 shows the Qarqan River super major bridge along 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/Ding Lei)