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Works and works to diffuse the yellow line

  • It is a propitious time to praise the achievements of the past and, moreover, to reclaim the expectations of the future. And so it is in China, I fear. Incidentally, it is not surprising that in the last few hours of December, in anticipation of the planned plan, the excavation of the Tainshan Shengli tunnel, on the Xinjiang Urumqi-Yuli motorway, has been carried out and has been heavily ventilated in the media. It does not have to be insignificant: it is the world’s longest road tunnel, about 22 kilometres long, which will severely reduce travel.

31 December 2024 - 09:30
Abenduaren 30ean burutu dituzte Tainshan Shengli tunelaren zulaketa-lanak; munduko errepide-tunel luzeena izango omen da, 22 kilometro luze. Xinhua

However, the news has become warm in the last week of December of this year, in the shadow of two major announcements that have come upon it: Construction of the CKU railway and final approval of the hydroelectric project of the Yarlung Zangbo River.

Actually, two projects that are nothing new, because years ago, for decades, we talked ... But now we will have to say that they are in diligence. And they're the big waters, which is surely why they've been everywhere for so long. It's also because they're unprecedented jobs.

The railway project known as the acronym CKU had been collecting in the bookshelf of dreams for a quarter of a century: It will connect China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, through which it will link with the existing railways to reach the Mediterranean area. The CKU is not long (about 500 kilometers), but the Tianshan Mountain Range that passes through it imposes great difficulties, as it is mostly tunnel viaducts, and at very high altitudes, with more inclined entrances. Of course, the development and progress of the project’s funds lies with China, and the figures are that way. But it is clear that the Beijing authorities have prioritised their strategy. Now.

This same quality must be recognized for the hydroelectric project of south-east Tibet within the Yarlung Zangbo River (better known among us as Brahmaputra). It was already under construction, but it has now been formalised. It is compared to the Three Gorges Reservoir, which is the largest hydroelectric dam in China and the second in the world, standing above it, but, according to little is known, they will have little resemblance to structure, impacts and the rest. It is clear, however, that Medog County is going to be even more expensive, to the point of becoming the most expensive public work in the world.

However, in addition to the scarcity, all these gigantic “new” public works have a common particularity: the quality of the West. I mean, let them be more Westerners than the Heihe-Tengchong line that divides the country into two almost equal parts.

That line, which is the most obvious reflection of China’s internal economic and social imbalance, even if it is not taken into account in our collective West, has always been one of the biggest concerns for the authorities in Beijing. It was not long ago that the current high authority seemed to reflect on this last August. You might think that these steps are the result of that.

It will take years to see if this kind of work blurs the yellow line.


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