The beauty of Duku Highway lies not only in the landscape, but also in its heroic core.

The morning sun shines on people, the breeze smells of grass, soil and flowers, and several eagles are soaring in the white clouds. The guests arrived at the Jorma checkpoint in Nilek county from all directions, ready to wake up the Duku highway that had been sleeping for more than half a year with a grand ceremony. The beauty of this road lies not only in the peerless and independent scenery, but also in a group of heroes without regrets.

On June 10, the main activity of the opening ceremony of Duku Highway was held at Qiaoerma checkpoint in Nileke County, Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang. White clouds are like quilts, grass is like carpets and picturesque. Hundreds of RVs, off-road vehicles and motorcycles are ready to go. Accompanied by the exciting song "I Love You China", long cars drove into the Dooku Highway, and horns blared. People pay tribute to this heroic road in this way. Duku Highway once again opens its arms to people and leads people to deeply feel the unique beauty of Xinjiang.

Opening ceremonies and celebrations were held along the Duku Highway in Dushanzi, Karamay, Wusu, Tacheng, Hejing, Bazhou and Aksu Kuche in Xinjiang, which opened the golden season of go on road trip in Xinjiang with the momentum of linkage of five cities in Xinjiang.

At the opening ceremony of Dooku Highway this year, people defined the theme of the event as? Hero Dooku Road. Tour northern Xinjiang and southern Xinjiang. ? This is because the beauty of Duku Highway lies not only in its unique landscape, but also in its heroic core. This is a road of heroes and a road of faith inheritance. When driving on the Dooku Highway, people will be intoxicated by the natural scenery at first. After learning about the construction process of Duku Highway, they will be deeply moved by the spirit of countless PLA officers and men who sacrificed themselves to build the frontier.

Surrounded by mountains, the Zorma Martyrs Cemetery 168 lies here. They accompany the green hills and write heroic songs with their lives and blood. People attending the opening ceremony of the Dooku Highway presented flowers in memory of these heroes. In the Memorial Hall of Martyrs Cemetery, precious photos record the scenes of young PLA officers and men in road construction. In the extremely difficult road construction environment, they fought in the wilderness, even in the season of ice and snow, they still did not put down their steel picks. In the low cave, they surrounded the stove, and a few steamed buns and a bowl of hot soup were their dinner. The hard environment did not scare them away, and which fresh faces were smiling.

The Duku Highway was built in the 1970s. A certain unit of the PLA Corps of Engineers used it for 10 years under extremely harsh conditions, which shortened the traffic distance from 1000 km by nearly half. In the process of road construction, due to avalanches, landslides, rock blasting, mudslides and other reasons, 168 PLA officers and men with an average age of over 20 died and thousands were disabled. They built a heroic road for the motherland and the people with iron perseverance and determination and with their own blood and sweat.

Many frequent visitors to road trip are first attracted by the scenery of this road, and then moved by the spirit it contains. The road under your feet is more like a road of life. Along the way, your mind has also been baptized, and you are proud of the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and you are even more moved by the hard-won happy life.

Green mountains and green waters are Jinshan Yinshan, and Duku Highway is also a happy road for Xinjiang people. It not only bears the heavy responsibility of the north-south traffic arteries, but also like a winding river to get rich, which transports a steady stream of tourists to scenic spots and cities along the route, so that people here can feel the great changes brought by the tourism economy to their lives. During the tourist season of 20 19, the maximum daily load of self-driving cars on this road reached 20,000 vehicles. This landmark landscape avenue in Xinjiang attracts a steady stream of tourists from all over the country with its unique charm.

Over the years, cities along the line have also paid more attention to the construction, development, service and publicity of single-depot highways. Duku highway has been continuously repaired and maintained, and various service facilities provided for tourists are becoming more and more perfect. Camping areas and RV parking areas have also been specially set up to meet the in-depth play of more go on road trip enthusiasts and enhance tourists' satisfaction. With the continuous strengthening of the construction of major scenic spots around expressway, the economy of nearby cities has developed rapidly, bringing better transportation, accommodation and cultural experience to tourists.

The beauty of Dooku Highway lies in its amazing sight. It integrates snow-capped mountains, glaciers, grasslands, lakes, Gobi, deserts and rivers, and crosses Tianshan Mountain, with changing scenery all the way. Duku Highway is mainly divided into three sections. The first section is from Dushanzi to Zhuoerma, which is famous for its steep mountains and misty mountains and seas. In the second paragraph, from Zhuo Ma to Longchi, the mountains and grasslands are lush, the lakes are as blue as jewels, and the Li Bai Gallery is endless and beautiful. In the third section, from the big and small Longchi to Kuqa, the mountains are spectacular, with strange shapes and colorful rocks and rocks. Populus euphratica is rooted in the Gobi desert, which is better than the strangeness and grandeur.

Driving on the Dooku Highway, you can enjoy the majestic and steep Tianshan Mountains, enjoy the beautiful grasslands in Ma Pingchuan and feel the greatness of life on the Gobi Desert. Because it spans many altitudes and the geological environment is changeable, it is different to see the four seasons in one day. Many tourists linger on this road and come to play in depth many times a year.

Hancheng, a tourist from Liaoning, realized his wish on this day three years ago. More than ten days ago, he drove his vehicle to Xinjiang and learned on the Internet that Duku Highway 10 was opened to traffic. He immediately changed his itinerary and arrived in Nilek three days ago, ready to fulfill his wish. Xinjiang is so beautiful that I can't get there enough, he said.

Yan Naimin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Autonomous Region, said: Xinjiang has long placed the development of go on road trip as a key link in the region's tourism development, relying on the highway network, taking key scenic spots and scenic spots with development potential as key nodes, and promoting it with high standards, high levels and high quality? Transportation+tourism? Integrated development system. Actively cultivate the leisure belt around Wuchang and the leisure tourism belt on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountain, support the construction of various theme parks and tourism complexes in Urumqi, and accelerate the development of go on road trip scenic spots such as Sailimu Lake, Jiangbulak, Barluk, Rem Tianshan Agricultural Park and Luobu Village. We will promote the construction of Duku Highway, Tianshan World Heritage Scenic Spot, Pamir Plateau Scenic Spot, Xinzang Line Scenic Spot, Grassland Danxia Scenic Spot, Tianma Cultural Scenic Spot, Kaidu River Scenic Spot, Taklimakan Desert Highway Scenic Spot, Nanshan Companion Highway Scenic Spot in Changji East Three Counties, East Tianshan Scenic Spot and Gobi Scenic Spot. Relying on G2 17, G2 18, G3 14, S10, S237 and other national provincial highways, new self-driving travel routes and products are continuously introduced.

At the same time, in order to better serve go on road trip guests, there are 73 go on road trip RV camps under construction and planning in Xinjiang, and 48 camps have been put into operation; There are 32 17 travel agencies operating go on road trip products in our region on major OTA platforms in China, and there are more than 600 go on road trip product brands, among which go on road trip products with the theme of hotel accommodation, travel photography service and discovering the countryside account for 30%. It is understood that the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Autonomous Region has issued two local standards, namely "Guide to Self-driving Tourism Services in Xinjiang" and "Classification and Evaluation of Self-driving RV Camps in Xinjiang". At the same time, in 2020, the revision and formulation of local standardization in the whole region has declared three local standards around the self-driving tourism service, namely, the Construction Standard of Self-driving Tourism Distribution Center, the Graphic Symbol Standard of Self-driving Tourism and the Design Standard of Self-driving Tourism Route, making our region a whole country.