New Delhi: China has presented a new example of engineering prowess as it has opened the world's longest expressway tunnel in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel is ...

Deep beneath one of Central Asia's most geologically violent mountain ranges, China just completed a 22 km expressway tunnel that crushed a 7-hour crossing into 20 minutes. This is the story of how ...

Construction crews in western China have completed the boring of the 13.7 miles (22.1 kilometers) stretch of the world’s longest expressway tunnel. The boring of the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel was ...

This study is led by Dr. Sha Yingying, Dr. Shi Zhengguo, and their colleagues from the State Key Laboratory of Loess Science at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The ...

It's not that building a tunnel through the Tianshan Mountains is easy, but that on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains, ...

Xinjiang tour guide Dili post for a picture at the entrance of Tianshan Shengli Tunnel on April 20. Photo: courtesy of Dili ...

The collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates resulted in the formation of the Tianshan Tectonic Belt; however, the formation mechanism of Tianshan and the construction of a dynamic model ...

URUMQI, 30 December (BelTA - Xinhua) - The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest expressway tunnel, completed tunneling Monday morning, paving the way for the opening of a new shortcut linking ...

Xinjiang Tianshan comprises four components—Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda— that total 606,833 hectares. They are part of the Tianshan mountain system of Central Asia, one of the ...

Xinjiang Tianshan comprises four components—Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda— that total 606,833 hectares. They are part of the Tianshan mountain system of Central Asia, one of the ...