According to China's state news agency Xinhua, its construction was an extremely difficult task due to the challenging ...

The project is the biggest of its kind in the world and is expected to help forge stronger regional and international links.

China has opened the world's longest expressway tunnel, the 22.13-kilometer Tianshan Shengli tunnel, significantly cutting ...

China on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the "world's longest", in Xinjiang province.

A vehicle passes through the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest expressway tunnel, on Friday in the Xinjiang Uygur ...

China has opened the 22-kilometre-long Tianshan Shengli Tunnel to traffic, completing a key piece of infrastructure on the ...

Previously the longest road tunnel in the world, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland has slipped down the ranking as new ...

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 ...

On December 26, 2025, the 22.13-kilometer Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, officially opened to traffic today, making traveling between northern and southern Xinjiang more ...

URUMQI, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The 22.13-km Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world's longest expressway tunnel, officially opened to ...