Why Did The Chinese Build A 277-mile-long Highway In An Uninhabited Desert? The Unique Tarim Highway

Today we are going to tell you about the Unique Tarim Desert Highway. Watch until the end and share your impressions, conclusions, and comments with us. Enjoy!

[ggkls]

When you say miles please think of the rest of the planet and introduce also km! It's not that hard :))

[RedFox-voxo]

Chinese are hardcore. Gotta ĺove the ingenuity and problem solving skills of those engineers and their can do attitude. Simply impressive...

[jarvisa]

2:36 “…about 229ft on either side of the road.”
I do not understand the absurd precision often used when metric quantities are converted to imperial.
Especially in this case where 70m is ~229.7ft which correctly rounds to 230ft anyway.

[leafrika]

Woww, first time hearing narration on China without bashing at it one second on YouTube, other channels always dilute content with that.

Amazing video, scripting, and narration it was super informative.

[helmutzollner]

Excellent piece. Thank you.
Very interesting.
I think it is quite unique.
Although I remember a desert road in Lybia, that the flight I was on from South Africa to London seemed to follow for almost two hours to the Mediterranean coast.
At a speed if about 750 km/h that would be about 900 miles of desert road. I read that Lybia has an extensive network of oil roads in the desert to service their oil wells.

[rongwu-sjws]

We have three such roads, and all of them cross the desert, the length of each is about 500 kilometers. I would like to inform you that from April to October every year, there are service points along the road where you can rest and drink water. So, if you are a cycling enthusiast, you can try your hand at crossing this desert road. It will be a bit difficult - in mid-summer at noon the surface temperature exceeds 70 degrees Celsius, so it's best to ride in the early morning and late evening, and rest at lunchtime. However, due to the dense distribution of service points and the presence of two small towns along the way, it can generally be said that the whole process is pretty safe, provided your health is good. I highly recommend cycling enthusiasts to try their hand at this route. Another exciting guide is the 5, 476 kilometer bike ride from Shanghai to Lhasa, passing through more than a dozen provinces in China, with delightful views. Also highly recommended for cycling enthusiasts!

[gkmalviya]

More than oil & gas it is a strategic road to connect to Tibet. The other access to Tibet further east is through the high mountains of Aksai Chin. It passes through area annexed from Indian territory & will have to be returned sooner or later. Besides, in case of an Indo China war it gives them one more route to access Tibet.

[miken]

The Nullarbor Plain road in Western Australia is 781 miles long with no inhabitants, apart from roadhouse occupants. Most of that is not sandy desert. The transSahara Highway is 4, 000km, with a lot of that being dunes. So this is not the longest route.

[walterwhite]

US and UK needs to understand whole world understand kms, kg, °c etc.

[mcc]

You might rethink your commentary about the road being unique. The Eyre Highway (commonly referred to as the Nullarbor Hwy) in Australia is 1675km long and takes around two days to cross, with petrol stations 200 klm apart. The longest strait stretch is 147 km (91 miles). 🇦🇺

[atrizas]

Amazing! A light house on the dessert. Best for sand's lovers.

[phensriwood]

Worked on Seismic crews there in the 1980s.

[peteroriyavo-nuzb]

It's about time these guys make themselves a new promise land for the world to see

[InspectorAyamKampung]

If you miss an exit, call an ambulance.

[iananderson]

In the event of World War 3 this will facilitate ease of access in moving troops and material so that the oils wells etc, can be secured quickly as possible to preserve what is left so that the supply can be manipulated even more that it already is.

[zt]

Tibetans look like Chinese ppl ..entire north east India do not look like rest of India ..

[gglen]

Very cool. I absolutely love China when it does cool stuff like this. China has many more projects like this.

[shashibhushanvishwakarma]

Such projects are very temporary and needs lot of maintenance and care. Like growing a forests in the middle of desert. With uproraring global climate such projects are hard to sustain or needs lot of money to pour for survival.

[dyh]

The reforestation efforts started with a hydrogen refinery called tower town in hotan, good story 😮

[williamlloyd]

Interesting. Reminds me of the view from freeway of Southern Pacific Railway through the Coachella Valley from Cabazon to Indio California. Salt Cedar trees serve to keep sand off track and break the wind.