China Completes 4,000 Km Power Loop Around the Taklimakan Desert

July 16—The Chinese government has announced the completion of a 4,197-km extra-high voltage power transmission loop around the Tarim Basin, home to the country’s largest desert (and second largest in the world), the Taklimakan, marking a major infrastructure milestone in southern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. As was reported by Prof. Zhang Weiwei during the Schiller Institute Conference in Berlin on July 12, China already completed a “green belt” around the desert to stop the desertification of the region. Contrary to the wild lies spread about the Chinese oppression of the Uygur, these massive investments have secured increased prosperity for them, now and into the future. No articles on the Uygurs in the anti—China media have ever mentioned the reality of the hugely successful fight to stop the desertification of their lands.

China reports on the project: “The final section of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop, now the country’s largest of its kind, was connected on Sunday, [July 13] capping a 15-year project involving nine substations, and nearly 10,000 steel towers, according to a subsidiary of State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., which constructed the project. This move completed a ‘power expressway loop,’ which is expected to become fully operational by November, 2025, the company said.”

Officials and experts say the project could put southern Xinjiang on a fast track to development and boost new energy supply nationwide.