The zero carbon emission highway built in the desert in the Tarım oil and natural gas field in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been put into service.
Within the scope of the project carried out by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), generating electricity and irrigation in the forest with diesel engines has become a thing of the past, thanks to 86 photovoltaic panel stations installed in the ecological protection forest along the highway passing through the desert in the Tarim Basin. The highway in question was China's first zero carbon-emission desert highway.
Electricity generation with photovoltaic panels will reduce carbon emissions on the 436-kilometer highway by an average of 3410 tons per year, and in addition, the forest will absorb 20 thousand tons of carbon dioxide annually.
The construction of the highway passing through the desert in the Tarim Basin was completed in 1995. In 566, a 2006-kilometer-long ecological protection forest was established along the road to protect the highway from wind and sandstorms, which has won the title of being the world's longest highway built in a desert with 436 kilometers.
Source: China International Radio
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