2022 Sentences in praise of Duku Highway

Duku Highway, also known as Tianshan Highway, is a national defense highway for combat readiness built by order of the Military Commission. The road is located in the middle of the Tianshan Mountains, with a total length of 561 kilometers, starting from Dushanzi in the north, reaching Kuqa in the south, in 1974 it took 9 years to build by a certain engineering department of the People's Liberation Army, and the project was completed and opened to traffic in September 1983.

All sections of the Duku Highway pass through the lofty mountains and deep river valleys, the terrain is extremely complex, one-third is a cliff, one-fifth of the section is in the alpine permafrost, crosses nearly ten major rivers in the Tianshan Mountains, and crosses the four ice Daban that are covered with snow all year round.

In the nine-year construction campaign, the road construction officers and soldiers were affected by the environment in all aspects, and there was no modern machinery and equipment and large-scale construction tools, and in many cases with the help of chain hoists to complete the lifting and transportation of materials, they overcame unimaginable hardships and hardships for ordinary people, and fought all year round in the snowstorms and mountains where avalanches, mudslides and tunnel collapses were frequent, and they shed blood and sweat"No, it doesn't work"Nearly 1,000 officers and men were injured or disabled, and 168 officers and men sacrificed their precious lives, the oldest of whom was 31 years old and the youngest was only 16 years old. Later generations built the Jorma Monument on the Duku Highway to commemorate the officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the construction of the Duku Highway.

The Duku Highway connects six counties and cities along the Tianshan Mountains, including Dushanzi, Wusu, Nileke, Xinyuan, Hejing and Kuqa. There are more than 280 kilometers of Duku Highway, which is above 2,000 meters above sea level; Climb over the four ice dabans with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters above sea level, including Hashlegen, Yushimolegai, Lardun and Tielimat, which are covered with snow all year round; It has built the highest altitude Hashilegan road tunnel in the country; It spans five major rivers in the Tianshan Mountains: Kuitun River, Kashgar River, Gongnaisi River, Bayingolin River and Kuqa River; It has the world's only snow-proof promenade. The completion of the Duku Highway has shortened the distance between the north and south of Xinjiang by nearly half from the original 1,000 kilometers, which can be called a monument in the history of China's highway construction.

It has played a positive role in consolidating national defense, developing and building Xinjiang, connecting northern and southern Xinjiang, and improving the material and cultural life of the people of all ethnic groups.

The terrain along the Duku Highway is dangerous and the scenery is peculiar. Crossing the Duku Highway, you can experience the scenery and climate change of the four seasons in one day, and it is known as the best channel for natural landscape tourism through the north and south slopes of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang. In recent years, with the rapid development of Xinjiang's tourism industry, the Duku Highway has become a very popular route for tourism enthusiasts, especially self-driving tourists.

When the time came on September 3rd, we took a short break in Kuqa City, and we drove off to set foot on the most beautiful highway in China - and trapped - Duku Highway. The completion of the Duku Highway is a great feat of Li Shang, the historical brother of China's road construction. With a total distance of 561 kilometers, she spans the Tianshan Mountains, connecting northern Xinjiang and southern Xinjiang, shortening the distance of more than 1,000 kilometers between northern and southern Xinjiang by nearly half.

The mountains and rivers of Duku Highway are colorful, when the first ray of sunlight kisses the mountain peak in the early morning, the mountain is full of light, the golden light is shining, with the change of the sun, she seems to be magical, and it shows dark gray or light yellow, or Chu color, sometimes bright and dark, varied, beautiful, amazing! Why is the Duku Highway so magnificent and gorgeous, it is the blood-stained style of countless road construction heroes. In the seventies of the last century, the material conditions were extremely poor, and the natural environment was extremely harsh, it was they who braved the wind and snow, endured hunger, and carried them on their shoulders, which lasted 10 years, and they opened up this moat road with both hands and shoulders and tenacious struggle, for which 168 officers and soldiers paid their precious lives, some died of hunger, froze to death, were buried in avalanches, and were hit on the head by flying stones, which were extremely tragic, and most of them were about twenty or thirty years old when they died, and the youngest ones were only about eighteen years old. In order to commemorate the heroes, a group of four of us made a special trip to the "Jorma Martyrs Cemetery" to pay respects to the martyrs to express our reverence.

When we left the martyrs' cemetery, we couldn't calm down for a long time. Just as he was about to get into the car, an old man about 60 years old and with a tall posture walked towards the cemetery, and his sharp-eyed husband recognized it as Chen Jungui, an old hero of road construction. Chen Jungui old hero silently guarded the tomb for the martyrs' cemetery for more than 30 years, he told us with deep affection that period of singing and crying tragic road construction history, let us be deeply moved, deeply feel that there is no heroic feat of the martyrs, there is no dust to remember our magnificent country today, there is no happy life we have today, road construction heroes are worthy of our eternal memory.

Finally, in order to express their respect for the hero and their gratitude to the hero, the family offered condolences to the old hero Chen Jungui.