On March 3, 2021, the Department of Transportation of the Tibet Autonomous Region held its annual work meeting. According to reports, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Tibet completed an investment of 251.6 billion yuan in fixed assets in transportation and 118.8 thousand kilometers of roads opened to traffic, creating an annual average. The miracle of the plateau with a growth of 8,100 kilometers. It is planned to build 5,600 kilometers of high-grade highways by 2035.

More than 60 years ago, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were completed and opened to traffic, ending Tibet's history of no modern highways. According to Xu Wenqiang, Director of the Transportation Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region, during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, one third of Tibet’s fixed asset investment was invested in the transportation field. "Well going" transformation.

At present, Tibet has 728 kilometers of high-grade highways open to traffic. Restricted by historical factors and natural conditions, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development of transportation in Tibet is still prominent. Tibet is an "isolated island" on China's highway network, and is the only provincial administrative region in the inland without highways.

Xu Wenqiang said that the Ministry of Transport of China has made it clear that the funding for the Tibet Autonomous Region's "14th Five-Year Plan" has increased significantly over the "13th Five-Year Plan". The meeting put forward the long-term goal of Tibet's transportation development in 2035: to make up for the shortcomings of transportation infrastructure construction, to basically complete a modern comprehensive transportation system, to basically complete the passage of highways in and out of Tibet, and to achieve high-grade highway connections in all cities and regions.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tibet's transportation construction project plans to arrange a total investment of 449.87 billion yuan, and it is estimated that the investment will be about 190 billion yuan. By 2025, Tibet will strive to exceed 120,000 kilometers and 1,300 kilometers of highways and highways, respectively, and build a three-hour comprehensive transportation circle centered on Lhasa. Editor/He Yuting