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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
"What I have seen in Xinjiang is a great transformation," Kanashyts Siarhei, editor-in-chief of Belarusian newspaper ...
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 ...
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 on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the “world’s longest”, in Xinjiang province. The Tianshan Shengli tunnel, which traverses through the central Tianshan ...
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 ...
* The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest expressway tunnel, completed tunneling Monday morning. The 22.13-kilometer tunnel will reduce the time it takes to drive across the middle section of ...