A mysterious force, an unknown secret project.
The Southern Xinjiang Highway in 1966 was extraordinarily busy. There were constantly full-loaded teams passing by. They were all the latest and best vehicles in the country at that time. When this special team passed by, people along the way could only see that they were wearing blue tooling. People, army green carriages and license plate numbers starting with K, no one knows where they came from or where they are going, everything is so mysterious; Signed the "Agreement on the Construction of China-Pakistan Highway ". The agreement stipulates that the China-Pakistan Highway is marked by the Khunjerab boundary marker and is divided into two sections; the eastern section runs from Kashgar, China, to Khunjerab, The total length is 420 kilometers, and the western section is 616 kilometers from Takot in Pakistan to Khunjerab; the roads in the two countries are built by their own, and China provides all road construction machinery and equipment free of charge; Pakistan There is a 1,500-person engineer unit, . China has provided this 1,500-person troop with fuel, supplies and daily necessities for 3 years free of charge, and has also equipped an overseas hospital to provide medical services for this unit.
On March 23, 1966, for the sake of confidentiality, the central government renamed the China-Pakistan Highway " Karakoram Highway ", the project code was 1601; and put forward specific requirements for the construction of the China-Pakistan Highway:
1, Xinjiang The military region is the preparatory unit;
2, the Xinjiang Communications Department is responsible for surveying, surveying and design tasks;
3, the construction team is formed by the Xinjiang Military Region Production and Construction Corps ;
4, the Xinjiang Military Region Road Engineering Corps Automobile Battalion undertakes the transportation task.
On March 25, 1966, 3,500 soldiers of the Corps who were building airfields in the areas of Hami, Hetian, and Aksu were urgently dispatched to accept the task of building a 420-kilometer Chinese road; In addition to transporting road construction officers and soldiers, 876 tents are also installed. There are also 458 rock drilling machines and 10,000 alloy steel drill bits on the car. This is a special need for the China-Pakistan Highway, because most road construction sections are made of hard stones. Fang engineering is the main.
Road construction officers and soldiers overcame difficulties such as lack of oxygen in the mountains, avalanches and debris flows, mountain floods, landslides, backward construction machinery, and shortage of living materials.
After two years of hard construction, by 1968, the 420-kilometer road in China from Kashgar to Khunjerab had been completed.
Pakistan has also built 500 kilometers of gross roads on 616 kilometers of domestic routes. However, the only road that can drive smoothly is only 25 kilometers of side roads. The difficulty of building roads far exceeds the construction capacity of Pakistani engineers.
Faced with insurmountable difficulties, Pakistan proposed to the Chinese government that it hoped that Chinese road construction troops would enter its territory to help build roads; Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai agreed to all their requests.
In March 1968, the Karakoram Highway Road Construction Headquarters was established. The Road Construction Headquarters was a division-level structure. Li Daowei, the former chief of staff of the third agricultural division of , served as the commander-in-chief (March 1968-December 1969), 1969 From December to February 1972, Meng Dongming, the former political commissar of the First Division of Engineering, took over as the commander-in-chief, and Li Huaxian, the former deputy commander of the First Agricultural Division of China, served as the deputy commander.
The first detachment of the two engineering detachments of the Road Construction Headquarters was established by the Xinjiang Military Region Infrastructure Engineering Corps; the second detachment was established by the Xinjiang Military Region Production and Construction Corps.The detachment and repair brigade are mainly formed by the Corps, and the automobile detachment is jointly established by the Logistics Department of the Xinjiang Military Region and the Corps; the Xinjiang Communications Department is responsible for the surveying and mapping survey tasks, and dispatches 3 surveying and mapping teams to speed up the design and survey work.
On June 27, 1968, the Chinese road-building troop to Pakistan secretly passed through Khunjerab and entered Pakistan; the Chinese road-building troop to Pakistan consisted of the Third Engineering Division, the First Agricultural Division, and the Agricultural First Division of the Production and Construction Corps of the former Xinjiang Military Region. The 81 militia companies of the Second Division and the Third Agricultural Division are the backbone.
In addition, the divisions affiliated to the Corps also dispatched a large amount of supplementary labor. By October, the total number of road construction officers and soldiers had reached 10,000.
The construction site of the China-Pakistan Highway at an altitude of 4,700 meters has thin air, lack of oxygen in the mountains and harsh climate.
The scene of the road construction troops marching
The China-Pakistan Highway designed by
passes through the Karakoram Mountains , Hindu Kush Mountains , and the Southern Himalayas; on the section of the China-Pakistan Highway to pass, there are 11 high-altitude buildings. There are tall peaks over 7,000 meters, so the China-Pakistan Highway has become the highest highway in the world.
For this road, Foreign Electric's evaluation is that in theory, there are no construction conditions at all.
Soldiers climbed up with a pneumatic drill on their backs to hit the holes
The two major killers of the China-Pakistan Highway, the first killer is the avalanche, and the second killer is the flow stone .
-37°Winter construction (November 1968-April 1969), in a hurry, rushing for the construction period, and fighting against the storm and snow for 6 months.
Soldiers carry dismantled cars and road construction equipment across narrow wire suspension bridges.
In February 1971, the first phase of the project was completed.
China-Pakistan Highway Completion and Handover Ceremony
Road construction officers and soldiers from China and Pakistan sat side by side
From June 1968 to February 1971, the Chinese road construction troops overcame the difficulties of ordinary people in three and a half years The imagined difficulties and dangers, after making huge sacrifices, digging 210 culverts, building more than 428.6 million cubic meters of protective walls, erecting 24 bridges, and laying 156.7 kilometers of three-level highway After the 150-kilometer road, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese road construction unit finally set foot on the road back to China.
The 47 martyrs who died in the first phase of the China-Pakistan Highway are buried here.
When the last truck passed the Chinese boundary marker, the southern Xinjiang was snowing heavily, and the figures of the road construction officers and soldiers were like snowflakes, quietly melting in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains; people who were immersed in joy would not have thought that three years later, they would They have to come back, and what awaits them is not only the familiar landscape, but also danger and death.
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