New highway along Yellow River opens to traffic

Photo taken on Aug 8, 2017 shows the newly-opened 828.5-kilometer-long highway pointing to the Mountain Huashan in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The 828.5-kilometer-long highway, which runs along the Yellow River, opened to traffic on Monday. The highway, which runs through the north and the south of Shaanxi Province, is expected to play a positive role in promoting the province's local tourism and ecological conservation. At cost of 6.9 billion yuan ($1 billion), the highway across 12 districts and counties will benefit more than 2 million people. [Photo/Xinhua]