50 years on: What does the Yunnan-Xizang Highway connect?

Completed on July 6, 1976, the Yunnan-Xizang Highway stretches more than 700 kilometers from Dali in Yunnan Province to Markam in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, where it connects with the Sichuan-Xizang Highway. As one of China's four major highways into Xizang, it has long served as a key corridor for travel, trade and exchanges across the Hengduan Mountains. Over the past five decades, the road has evolved alongside the regions it connects, linking not only places, but also people, products and opportunities.