The Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway has brought great changes to the travel possibilities of residents along the line, according to a report on Xinhua.
Despite Ramadan, saleswoman Guliman has seen many customers at the fur apparel store where she works in Horgos, a port bordering Kazakhstan in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
With a total length of 2,450 kilometers, Beijing-Xinjiang Highway will be the longest expressway passing through a desert in the world and shorten the road distance between Beijing and Urumqi, the capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, by 1,300 kilometers.