China completes 'power expressway loop' around southern Xinjiang desert
Updated: July 14, 2025 07:14Xinhua
This photo taken on Aug. 13, 2024 shows a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line under construction in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. China has finished construction of a 4,197-km extra-high voltage power transmission loop around the Tarim Basin, home to the country's largest desert, marking a major infrastructure milestone in southern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The final section of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop, now the country's largest of its kind, was connected on Sunday, capping a 15-year project involving nine substations and nearly 10,000 steel towers, according to a subsidiary of State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., which constructed the project. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on Oct. 16, 2024 shows technicians working on a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on June 27, 2025 shows a 100,000-kilowatt wind power project in Ruoqiang County of Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on Nov. 21, 2024 shows a view of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop under construction in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on July 13, 2025 shows a view of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
A train runs under the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 10, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on June 24, 2025 shows a view of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop under construction in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on June 24, 2025 shows a staff member working at the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
This photo taken on March 23, 2025 shows a view of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
Staff members work on the final section of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 13, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
Staff members work on the final section of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 13, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
An aerial drone photo taken on July 13, 2025 shows a view of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
A drone photo taken on July 13, 2025 shows a view of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop in Minfeng County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
An aerial drone photo taken on June 26, 2025 shows a four-million-kilowatt photovoltaic project in Ruoqiang, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
This photo taken on June 24, 2025 shows a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line linking Qiemo and Ruoqiang in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
Staff members lay grass grids under a power transmission tower in Yutian County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 24, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
This photo taken on June 25, 2025 shows the Qiemo 750-kilovolt substation of the 750-kilovolt transmission and transformation project around the Tarim Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
Technicians work on a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line linking Qiemo and Ruoqiang in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 24, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
An aerial drone photo taken on June 27, 2025 shows the Ruoqiang 750-kilovolt Substation of the 750-kilovolt transmission and transformation project around the Tarim Basin, which has already been in operation, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
This photo taken on June 25, 2025 shows a section of the 750-kilovolt transmission and transformation project passing through Taklimakan Desert in the Tarim Basin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
An aerial drone photo taken on June 14, 2025 shows a section of the 750-kilovolt transmission and transformation project around the Tarim Basin across the Qarqan River in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. [Photo/Xinhua]
Technicians install conductors for a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line linking Minfeng and Qiemo in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 11, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
Technicians work on a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line linking Qiemo and Ruoqiang in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 24, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
Technicians work on a 750-kilovolt (kV) power transmission line linking Minfeng and Qiemo in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 12, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
