This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-09-12 07:59
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
On Sept 12, 1990, the Lanzhou-Urumqi Railway linked up at Alataw Pass in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with the former Soviet Union's Turkman-Siberia Railway, forming a new transcontinental bridge connecting Europe with Asia.
With a total length of 10,800 kilometers, the second Eurasian Continental Bridge is an international railway with its eastern terminal at Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, and its western terminal at Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It shortens the distance from Asia to Western Europe by 200 to 300 km.
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