Aerial photo taken on June 12, 2018 shows the Tarim Desert Highway in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As an important link of the Silk Road Economic Belt, Xinjiang is speeding up the development of transportation and logistics to connect east and west. By the end of 2017, the total length of roads in Xinjiang reached 186,000 km, with 4,578 km of expressways. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)