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China’s top meteorological authority issued three extreme weather alerts simultaneously on Sunday morning, warning of drastic temperature drops, freezing weather and sandstorm affecting vast swathes of the country over the following week, hindering return journeys back to work after the tradition family reunion holiday of Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year.
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The Beijing-Urumqi Expressway, the longest desert-crossing expressway in the world. Photo by Xinhua.
The Beijing-Urumqi Expressway, the longest desert-crossing expressway in the world, fully opened to traffic after the last section of the route in northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was put into operation, according to The Xinhua News Agency reports.
The expressway linking the Chinese capital Beijing and Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, has a total length of 2,800 km, with over 500 km passing through desert and no man s land.
The Beijing-Urumqi Expressway, the longest desert-crossing expressway in the world. Photo by Xinhua.
Besides Beijing and Xinjiang, the expressway passes through four other provincial-level regions – Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Gansu in the north and northwest of China.