From the side to the hub Xinjiang as the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the status is increasingly apparent

Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, September 17th. Question: From the side to the hub Xinjiang as the core area of ​​the Silk Road Economic Belt, the status is increasingly apparent

Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Bing, Hao Yu, Gu Yu

For thousands of years, in Xinjiang, which is located in the hinterland of Asia and Europe, the sound of camel bells accompanied by the traversal caravan through the desert Gobi, closely connecting the economy and culture of China and Europe. Today, with the continuous advancement of the “Belt and Road” initiative, this ancient Silk Road, which has taken the camel as its main carrier, relying on the modern three -dimensional transportation network that integrates railways, highways, and aviation, once again, it has burst into vitality and vitality again. The position of Xinjiang as the core area of ​​the Silk Road Economic Belt is increasingly apparent.

Third, the highway that crosses the Taklimanan Desert -Weili County, Xinjiang to the Mochi County Desert Highway, and the road construction workers are launching asphalt operation (taken on May 1, 2021, drone photos). Xinhua News Agency (Que Hu Hot)

"The Sea of ​​Death" Taklama Ganan Desert, Baili Wind Area, Pamir Plateau ... These complex geographical environments that have brought endless suffering to business brigades are gradually being "tamed" by modern transportation: thousands of kilometers, crossing China and China and China The Karakolon Highway in Pakistan's mountains and mountains has witnessed that the hands of China -Pakistan friendship are tighter; the Lanxin Railway and the Lanxin high -speed rail line are the main channels, the Linhe -Hami Railway is the North Channel, and the Golmud -Korla Railway It is making "getting into and leaving Xinjiang" a reality; the first high -plateau airport -Tashkurgan Red Qilafufu Airport is imminent, and the Pamir Plateau will set up a "air bridge" with the world ...

In the past ten years, Xinjiang's transportation construction has ushered in the period with the largest investment scale and the fastest development speed in history. According to data from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Transportation Department, it showed that from January to August this year, the investment in transportation infrastructure in the region reached 51.838 billion yuan, an increase of 15.3%year-on-year. A large number of transportation projects such as Captain Liezhi, Captain Line, Captain Line of the "Sea of ​​Death" have been completed and opened to traffic, and Xinjiang is accelerating the formation of highway traffic patterns.

This is the first high -plateau airport in Xinjiang, which was taken on February 27, Tashkurgan Red Qiraf Airport (drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Lei

As the largest land port in the northwest of my country, the Alashankou port is currently connected to 91 China -Europe Class lines, which has strongly promoted economic and trade exchanges and common development of countries and regions along the “Belt and Road”.

According to the China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group Co., Ltd., in the first eight months of this year, the number of Central Europe (Central Asia) trains in Xinjiang Alashankou and the Horgos Railway Port reached 8701, reaching 19 countries and regions in Eurasia. Chinese goods are out of the country via the Alashankou Railway Port, and they can arrive at Shelia Jiano Station, Moscow, Russia in about a week. 10-15.

On the Urumqi International Airport Turning Ping, China Southern Airlines was waiting in line to take off (taken on May 31). Xinhua News Agency (provided by China Southern Airlines Xinjiang Branch)

Xinjiang also makes full use of the location advantage of the hinterland of the ASEAC and continues to "weave" air routes. Right now, Xinjiang has basically formed a multi -level, multifunctional aviation transportation system supported by Urumqi International Airport as the hub and supporting the branch airport; and invested 24 civil airports. Since this year, Xinjiang has resumed international freight routes in many places, and international freight charter machines have grown rapidly; China Southern Airlines has resumed 3 Urumqi to and from Alamu, Bishkak, and Dushang's passenger routes from July. There are 26 international passenger routes from Urumqi.

Today, the modern three -dimensional transportation network with all directions and inside and internal and inside has gradually formed in Xinjiang, which provides convenience for exchanges along the Silk Road Economic Belt. In the future, Xinjiang, which transformed into the Silk Road Economic Belt from the northwest, will continue to incorporate the regional open strategy into the overall layout of the country to open west, playing a more important role in expanding opening up.

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