Qinghai-Tibetan Highway: Veine of Life

#roadtrips #100waysoftravel The Qinghai-Tibet Highway starts from Xining in Qinghai Province and ends in Lhasa, Tibet. It is the highest and longest paved road in the world, as well as the relatively short, best and safest road to Tibet. Along the road stretches a majestic landscape with all the prairies, salt lakes, mountains, deserts and other natural landscapes. The Qinghai-Tibet Highway is open to traffic all year round. It is the busiest of the 5 highways leading to Tibet. The 1937 km Qinghai-Tibet Highway is a minor highway of national importance. The width of the roadway is 10 meters, the slope is less than 7%, and the minimum radius is 125 meters. The average height of the highway is 4000 meters, and the maximum speed along the highway is 60 km / h. Behind the Kunlun Mountains there are ancient lake landforms, on which 474 culverts and more than 60 bridges with a total length of 1,347 km were built. The "third pole of the world" - Tibet - is a magical and beautiful place that has always been a Buddhist shrine, which many people in China, as well as around the world, aspired to. However, due to the steep terrain, huge mountains and rivers, it was closed from the outside world. In early 1950, the PLA went to Tibet together with the Tibetan people to carry forward the spirit of hard struggle, overcome difficulties, overcome all obstacles to build the Sichuan-Tibet highway and Qinghai-Tibet Highway with a total length of more than 4,360 kilometers through the roof of the world, thanks to which modern transport will replace the backward mode of transport in Tibet and open a new one a chapter in the development of transport in Tibet. The Qinghai-Tibet Highway in Tibet connects to important passages of the mainland, delivering more than 85% of goods to Tibet and more than 90% of goods from Tibet to other places, plays an important role in economic development and social stability in Tibet and is known as the "Lifeline” Tibet.