Tibet Highway

Qinghai-Tibet Highway

Qinghai-Tibet Highway (Xining-Lhasa section of No.109 National Trunk Highway) starts form xining of Qinghai Province on the north and ends at Lhasa of Tibet. On December 25,1954, the highway was open to Lhasa along with the Sichuan-Tibet highway, Qinghai-Tibet Highway covers 528 kilometers in Tibet, and Qinghai Golmud-Lhasa, 1,140 kilometers section is maintained by Tibet. Qinghai-Tibet highway climbs over the Kunlun, Hoh Xil and Tanggulashan mountains and the beautiful Zangbei Plateau with the average elevation of above 4,500 meters. The state invested 760 million yuan in reconstruction in 1985, realized bitumen pavement, and made it become the bitumen pavement with the world's highest elevation and longest frozen land mileage. Since 1991, over 1.4 billion yuan gas been injected in first-phase and second-phase rectification of the 542.6 kilometers frozen land area disease section, road conditions have tangibly improved and basically reached Class 2 highway criteria.

Qinghai-Tibet Highway is a major passage between Tibet and hinterland, undertakes transport of over 85% inbound Materials and over 90% outbound materials, plays an important role in Tibet economic development and social stability, dubbed the lifeline of Tibet.