creating the world’s first railway loop around a desert. The 1,685-mile (2,712-kilometer) rail link connects desert cities, facilitating the transport of local goods like walnuts and red dates to the ...

around the Taklamakan was completed on Thursday in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, after workers planted the final 100 metres of trees on the desert's southern edge, the Communist Party-run ...

The encirclement of the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region – an area about the size of Germany – is meant to prevent sandstorms and protect local ...

China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 1,900-mile (3,050-kilometer) green belt of vegetation and ...

FILE PHOTO: A man leads camels at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region BEIJING (Reuters) - China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert ...

BAZHOU, China, Nov. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To improve the reliability of the power supply through transmission lines in the Taklamakan Desert, on November 14th, technicians from State Grid ...

BAZHOU, China, Nov. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To improve the reliability of the power supply through transmission lines in the Taklamakan Desert, on November 14th, technicians from State Grid Xinjiang ...