BEIJING, Dec. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On December 26, 2025, the 22.13-kilometer Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, officially opened to traffic today, making traveling ...

This photo taken on Dec 23, 2025 shows the entry of Tianshan Shengli Tunnel on Urumqi-Yuli Expressway in Northwest China's ...

China has completed the construction of the world’s longest expressway tunnel in the country. The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel is located in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The tunnel is 22.13 ...

It was designed keeping in mind extreme cold, high altitude, and seismic risks. New Delhi: China has presented a new example of engineering prowess as it has opened the world’s longest expressway ...

A drone photo taken on Dec. 25, 2024 shows the exit of the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel in Hejing County of Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ...

"It's not that building a tunnel through the Tianshan Mountains is easy, but that on the other side of the mountains, there are people," A video featuring Xinjiang guide's commentary on the Tianshan ...

High in the heart of Central Asia’s mountains, China has opened a record breaking expressway tunnel that carries traffic almost 10,000 feet above sea level. Carved beneath the Tianshan range in ...

China has opened the 22-kilometre-long Tianshan Shengli Tunnel to traffic, completing a key piece of infrastructure on the motorway linking the city of Urumqi to Yuli. The project drastically reduces ...

The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel sits beneath 1,100 meters of fractured, seismically active mountain and cut a 7-hour crossing down to 20 minutes. This is how China pulled off one of the most geologically ...