What is Wusheling Ridge?
"The wind rises in the middle of summer, and the snow is everywhere"
It's the Black Sheath Ridge
"Mountains and mountains are connected, and the passes are natural"
It's the Black Sheath Ridge
"Since ancient times, soldiers have fought for land, and the road is cool in the west"
It is also the Black Sheath Ridge
When you stand at the Wusheling Observation Deck at an altitude of 3,052 meters
As far as the eye can see, the snow-capped mountains stretch for thousands of miles
Divine thoughts have been connected to thousands of vicissitudes of life
That's when you really understand
Wushei Ridge
It's not just a mountain
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Wusheling is located in the northeast of the Qilian Mountains
The central part of Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province
It is about 17 kilometers long from east to west
It is about 10 kilometers wide from north to south
The main peak is 3,562 meters above sea level
The average annual temperature is -2.2°C
When you open the map of China
In the territory of Gansu
Find Wusheling in the west direction along Lanzhou
You will find out
It looks east to Longdong and west to the west of the river
The desert is in the north and Qilian is in the south
It is in and out of the hinterland of the Northwest Interior
Important geographical coordinates
"The ground chokes the east and west holes, and controls the throat of Hexi"
It is said that the special geographical location of Wusheling Ridge
Topographically, Wusheling is located
Loess Plateau, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau
The confluence of the three major plateaus
In terms of topography, the Wusheling Ridge is
The boundary between the first and second steps of the continent
In terms of climatic zoning
Plateau sub-arid zone, mid-temperate sub-arid zone, mid-temperate arid zone
The three major climatic zones intersect at the Wusheling Mountains
Although it is not outstanding among the major mountain ranges in China
But Wusheling is like a stocky northwest man
Standing at the east gate of the Hexi Corridor
In the perennial "tug-of-war" with the warm and humid air currents "delivered" by the Pacific Ocean
has created a kind of "maverick" cold character
"Looking back, I am more suspicious that the road is near, and I am suddenly in the white clouds"
Qing Dynasty poet Yang Weichang's Wusheling Ridge
It is a traffic artery of the magnificent shore
Lin Zexu, who was assigned to Ili, passed through Wusheling Ridge
Left a record of "the ridge is not very steep, but its ground is very cold".
In Jin Yong's novel "Book of Swords and Enmity".
Wusheling Ridge is "the famous steep place on Ganliang Road"
"In September, snowflakes fell by themselves"
"Mountains on one side, cliffs on the other, bottomless valleys"
The folk are also complex and changeable because of the climate of Wusheling Mountains
It is known as the saying that "a mountain has four seasons, and ten miles of different days".
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Historical Wusheling Ridge
Reverberated with a heroic song
Full of passionate arias
Every stroke is a strong bone
Every sand and dust has the echo of the years
There are soldiers and merchants
The literati chanted, sang and danced
Zhang Qian, Huo Quzhi, Tang Xuanzang, Zuo Zongtang, etc
Leave hot and deep footprints here
Let Wusheling be in the minds of the world
With an extraordinary reputation
The highest Great Wall in China - Wusheling Great Wall. (Photographer @ Wei Yuezhong, source Planetary Research Institute WeChat public account)
It is also a place where civilizations mingle and blend
Different products, different civilizations
Shuttle back and forth, collide with each other
The highest section of the Great Wall of Han and Ming Dynasty meets here
Through the wind and frost, watch the stars
Let the Wusheling Ridge be in the mountains, rivers and moonlight
More enthusiasm for the ancient road
The picture shows the steam locomotive slowly moving towards Wusheling Ridge. (Data map)
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For thousands of years, the steep geographical environment of the Wusheling Mountains
It can't stop the ancients' desire for communication
Today, people are reshaping time and space with modern means of transportation
50s of the last century
New China went from the interior to Xinjiang
The construction of the first railway, the Lanxin Railway, began
Oil painting "Road to Urumqi"
May 1954
As a key project of the Lanxin Railway
The first generation of the Wusheling Tunnel was completed and opened to traffic
At that time, the famous painter Ai Zhongxin
Take the Qilian Mountains to the majestic and Lanxin railway construction site
The scene of labor in full swing
Created the oil painting "Road to Urumqi"
This is a magnificent picture
It has witnessed the development of the railway industry in New China
It also praises the great strength of the working people
On March 30, 2003, the national "Tenth Five-Year Plan" key project Lan (Zhouxi) Wu (Weinan) additional second-line railway construction project officially started.
Enter the 21st century
The construction of the second line of Lanwu began
August 2006
The second generation of Wusheling Tunnel——
The Wusheling extra-long tunnel is double-lined
"Asia's longest tunnel" was born
In August 2006, the double line of the Wusheling Tunnel of the Lanzhou-Wuwei Second Line of the Lanzhou-Singapore Railway was opened.
The "bottleneck" on the passage of the Eurasian land bridge was broken
3651 kilometers from Lianyungang to Urumqi
All of them have been opened to traffic on two lines
This is another monument in the history of China's railway development
Today
The Lanwu section of the Lanzhang high-speed railway was officially put into operation
After opening to traffic
Wuwei was connected to the national high-speed rail network for the first time
Wuwei's grape wine
Lamb from Gulang
The white yak of the heavenly blessing
The bitter water rose of Yongdeung
It can also make more people "one-click accessible"
Still in Wusheling Ridge
High-speed trains travel at speeds of up to 250 kilometers per hour
The third generation of Wusheling Tunnel——
Lanwu section of the Lanzhang high-speed railway, the new Wusheling Tunnel
Three generations of Wusheling Tunnel changes
The ancient Silk Road
Modern railways
Faster high-speed rail
On the Wusheling Ridge, they complement each other
Traffic changes are condensed here
They are old and new
It is a link between time and space between the past and the present
It is also a chapter of the times at the right time
Wushei Ridge
He once wrote the dream of his family and country
He once greeted a fierce and high-spirited figure
It has witnessed the fiery era of burning passion
From the national integrity of self-improvement
to the steady and far-reaching firm pace
Every metamorphosis on the Witch Ridge takes place
It's like a train passing through a tunnel
Wind and rain
Always forward