Khorgas National Gate Scenic Area Review

[Lianhuo Expressway] Lianyungang-Holgos Expressway, referred to as Lianhuo Expressway, also known as Lianhuo Expressway, one of the main east-west main lines of China's national highway network, formerly the "fourth horizontal" of the main line of the national road "five vertical and seven horizontal". G30 Lianhuo Expressway is a highway connecting Lianyungang City, Jiangsu and Horgos City, Xinjiang, with a total length of 4244km, passing through Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang and other provinces. Lianhuo Expressway, the whole line has been open for more than 8 years, becoming an important traffic artery in the country's Belt and Road Plan; it is the longest highway in China.

20230722 morning: 1. The "Khorgos National Gate" is a land road and road port in Huocheng County, Ili Prefecture, Xinjiang Province, and Yarkent City, Kazakhstan. It was opened in 1983. It is the largest and most fully functional land road and railway port in the history of western China. It is an important node of the Belt and Road. The Central European Banlieue passed through the whole year in 2022 has 7068 columns, and the cargo volume is 952.4 10,000 tons, ranking first in 21 railway ports in China. The scenic spot is divided into 3 major areas: "Guomen Cultural Center", Jiebei, and Overseas Commodity Experience Center. ① Address: G312 (Ya'ou North Road), Huocheng County, Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. ② Transportation: No bus, easy to stop by car. ③ peak season: no. ④ Duration: 2 hours. ⑤ Note: Border defense is heavy, do not take pictures of military facilities. 2. Horgos Port. After entering the ticket gate, there is a small square, and the photo spots are: ① "I miss you very much in Horgos" road sign: blue, the same frame as the main building behind. ② Desert theme sculpture: divide the north and south sides of the square, integrating the sculptures of the ancient city of Damo, camels and horses. ③ International Road signs: Net red road signs that must be punched in, there are 10 domestic and international cities in the direction of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Lianyungang, Rome, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, London, Almaty (Kazakhstan's largest city, once the capital). ④ The starting point of Lianhuo Expressway and 312 National Road: Lianhuo Expressway is 4,244 kilometers long, connecting Lianyungang and Horgos. The whole line was opened in 2014, and the number G30 is the fourth horizontal of the main national road "five vertical and seven horizontal", and the aorta on the belt and road; The total length of National Highway 312 is 4,967 kilometers, and individual sections have not been completed. The number is G312, connecting Shanghai and Horgos. 3. The National Gate Cultural Museum introduces the historical evolution of the Horgos Port in the form of pictures and texts, sets, wax statues (exquisite and delicate wax statues make history more alive), models, physical objects, etc.: ① Han Dynasty: The Shenjue of the West Han Dynasty in the second year (60 years ago), and the Hunnu of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain fell to Han Dynasty after the king. The Han Dynasty established the "Western Regions Hufu" in Xinjiang. Xinjiang was officially included in the Chinese map. More than 50 countries in the Western Region have dropped to Han. The Silk Road has since opened and has become an important station along the way. ② Sui and Tang Dynasty: The Silk Road reached its heyday. ③ Song Dynasty: The rise of maritime trade, the Song Dynasty has no time to visit the west, Mongolia's Genghis Khan unified the western region. ④ Yuan Dynasty: This place was divided into the second son Chahetai by Genghis Khan, and the Chahetai Khan State, one of the "four major han countries" of the Yuan Dynasty, was established. Its capital is Ali Mali, the predecessor of Horgos. After the split of the Khan State, the city gradually became desolate. Horgos began to appear as a place name. Mongolian means "the place where the camels pass", and it is also said to be "the place where the pastures are beautiful"; Kazakh means "the place to accumulate wealth". ⑤ Ming Dynasty: leaders from all over Xinjiang re-appear to the Central Plains Dynasty. ⑥ Qing Dynasty: Zuo Zongxu, one of the four famous officials of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty, recovered Ili Prefecture and other areas from the hands of Russia, and the name of this place was changed to Nikanka. In Qing Guangxu seven years (1881), China and Russia signed... The number of words exceeded the limit, and continued in the last picture...

Horgos Port, Xinjiang's largest land and railway comprehensive port, special geographical location, long historical stories, for its addition a lot. Mongolian "Horgos", meaning "the place where the camel team passed", tells people that this place was once a large camel station on the ancient road of the camel team. Today, Horgos is the starting point of the western end of China's major traffic artery. The national road of G312, which starts from Shanghai People's Square, has passed 4967 kilometers of water and thousands of mountains, and stops here; the freight trains of the Bohai-Lanxin-Yihuo Railway leave the country here. The Khorgos region, during the Qing Qianlong period, here and the far-reaching western range, are included in the map of the Qing Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, Russia passed the bandit-style unequal treaties and the thief-style move of the border monument, which became a sentry on the border line (the Qing 18 border monument displayed in the scenic monument pavilion witnessed this history). After the founding of New China, as a port of Horgos, it has become a unique border town, witnessing the construction of the motherland, the collapse of the Soviet Union, reform and opening up, the Belt and Road...

The first port of Horgos in western China, Horgos is located at the mouth of the Yili River Valley. This is the easternmost end of the warm and humid air flow in the far Atlantic. It is not far from Tianshan, forming an 800-kilometer-long Yili River Valley. A horn-shaped landscape corridor with plump water and grass. In the south of Khorgos, the Ili River, which originated in the Tianshan Mountains in China, flows westward through Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, and westwards into Lake Balkashi. Such geographical advantages make Horgos a station on the ancient Silk Road, the most mature and suitable trade route to Almaty. The Lianhuo Expressway, which connects Jiangsu Lianyungang and Xinjiang Horgos, is 4,395 kilometers long. It connects Xuzhou, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Xi'an and major cities such as Lanzhou, Urumqi and Yining along the way. It is one of the longest highways in China and the most important things in China. One of the veins, in Gansu, it crosses the Hexi Corridor and the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in parallel to occupy the advantages of all aspects, and is no longer the film and television industry "tax haven" of Horgos, and may go out of the road of more practical development.

The punch-in place for Xinjiang self-driving trips, take pictures.

The scenery here is very good [price ratio] is also very high