Photo: Grand View of Xinjiang's Expressway
Pictured here is the Turpan-Urumqi-Dahuangshan Expressway, which was built
at a cost of 3 billion yuan and opened to traffic August 20, 1998. The Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region has so far built 32,000-km highways and 3000-km railroads along with the
implementation of the strategy of opening China's border areas to the outside world.
Economicnews 1999-09-06 Page2
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