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Lacking electricity and water, how did China build thousands of kilometers of highway across the Taklimakan desert?
Building cross-desert highways is one of China's engineering marvels.
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How did experts build a railway in the 'deadly' desert using 2 tons of paper to create blueprints?
Designing and building a railway across the world's second largest shifting sand desert is no small challenge for experts.
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Discover China's largest desert, a place that is considered 'easy to enter, hard to return'
As the largest desert in China today, Taklimakan has long been famous as a place
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'Underground ocean' under the desert with the amount of water equal to 8 Chinese Yangtze rivers
Xinjiang is located in the northwest, China, has the largest area in the administrative area (the administrative area is built according to the needs of several province…
Environment
Taklimakan Desert (China) has existed for 5.3 million years
Taklimatan, the second largest desert in the northwestern region of Xinjiang Autonomous Region (China) may have existed for more than 1.8 million years compared to what…