G6 Beijing–Lhasa Expressway

Beijing–Lhasa Expressway

北京－拉萨高速公路

Jingzang Expressway
京藏高速公路

The current Beijing–Lhasa Expressway is highlighted in red. The portion between Xining and Lhasa, highlighted in purple, is still in planning and not constructed.

G6 signage leaving Beijing
Route information
Part of
Length: 3,710 km[1] (2,310 mi)
Length when complete.
Major junctions
East end: Madian Bridge, North 3rd Ring Road, Beijing
West end: Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region (when complete)
Chaidamu Road, Xining, Qinghai (current)
Highway system

Expressways

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The Beijing-Tibet Expressway (Chinese: 北京－西藏高速公路; pinyin: Běijīng－Xīzàng gāosù gōnglù), commonly abbreviated to Jingzang Expressway (Chinese: 京藏高速), also known as Beijing-Lhasa Expressway (Jingla Expressway; Chinese: 京拉高速公路) or China National Expressway 6, is part of the Chinese national expressway network and is planned to connect the nation's capital, Beijing, to the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa.

It passes through a total of seven China's administrative regions, including the Beijing municipality, the province of Hebei, the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai, and finally the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Passage

G6 Expressway at the interchange with the Fifth Ring Road in northern Beijing.

Beginning from Beijing and driving southwest to Lhasa, The expressway runs approximately 3,710 kilometres (2,310 miles) through Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai, for a total of seven provincial-level divisions. Excluding the two terminal points, it passes through the major cities of Zhangjiakou, Jining District, Hohhot, Bayan Nur, Wuhai, Yinchuan, Wuzhong, Baiyin, Lanzhou, Xining and Golmud.

As of August 2010, just over fifty percent of the expressway is open to traffic, which mainly comprises the stretch between Beijing and Xining. Like China National Highway 109 and the Qingzang railway, it is expected to pass west through Golmud before heading southwest into Tibet and Lhasa. Because of climatic conditions, this stretch of the expressway does not yet have a construction timetable.[2]

The G6 merges with the G7 in Hebei and does not split until around a third of the way through Inner Mongolia.

Interchanges

From Beijing
Towards Beijing

See also

References

  1. ↑ G6 京藏高速 (Chinese)
  2. ↑ "Get your kicks on Route G6", The Economist, Dec 22 2012 http://www.economist.com/news/china/21568755-china-building-motorway-across-tibetan-plateau-some-reaching-lhasa-road