Heavenly road brings the high life to Tibetan Plateau
Photo shows the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway running along the Bangong Lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As one of the world's highest motorable roads, Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, or China National Highway 219, connects Xinjiang and southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters. Originally made of graval in 1950s, the 2,340-kilometer highway was fully paved with asphalt in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
Photo shows the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway running along the Bangong Lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As one of the world's highest motorable roads, Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, or China National Highway 219, connects Xinjiang and southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters. Originally made of graval in 1950s, the 2,340-kilometer highway was fully paved with asphalt in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
Photo shows the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway running along the Bangong Lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As one of the world's highest motorable roads, Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, or China National Highway 219, connects Xinjiang and southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters. Originally made of graval in 1950s, the 2,340-kilometer highway was fully paved with asphalt in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
Photo shows the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway running along the Bangong Lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As one of the world's highest motorable roads, Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, or China National Highway 219, connects Xinjiang and southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters. Originally made of graval in 1950s, the 2,340-kilometer highway was fully paved with asphalt in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
Photo shows the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway running along the Bangong Lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As one of the world's highest motorable roads, Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, or China National Highway 219, connects Xinjiang and southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters. Originally made of graval in 1950s, the 2,340-kilometer highway was fully paved with asphalt in 2013. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)
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Newly-built tunnel along Qinghai-Tibet Railway
As part of the second line project of the Xining-Golmud section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the Guanjiao Tunnel lies at 3,780 m above sea level in Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
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Vigilant guards of sky-high railway
Officers and soldiers have been patrolling the railway for three years braving all kinds of adverse weather on the plateau of more than 4,000 m above sea level.
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