The Kuytun–Tacheng Expressway (, ), commonly referred to as the ''Kuita Expressway'' () is an expressway that connects the cities of

Kuytun Kuytun or Kuitun (), is a county-level city with about 285,000 residents (2000 census) in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Kuitun is located between Wusu and Shihezi on the Lanxin railway, railway from Ürümqi to Kazakhstan, cl ...

and

Tacheng TachengThe official spelling according to (), as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Qoqak, is a county-level city (1994 est. pop. 56,400) and the administrative seat of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh A ...

in the Chinese autonomous region of

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

. It is in length. The expressway is a spur or auxiliary line of the

G30 Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway The Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway (), designated as G30 and commonly referred to as the Lianhuo Expressway (), is

. In the southeastern end, it connects to the

G30 Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway The Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway (), designated as G30 and commonly referred to as the Lianhuo Expressway (), is

. In the northwestern end, it terminates at Xinjiang Provincial Highway 221 in

, close to the Bakhtu border crossing () on the

China–Kazakhstan border The China–Kazakhstan border or the Sino-Kazakhstan border ( kz, Қазақстан-Қытай мемлекеттiк шекарасы, russian: Казахстанско-китайская государственная граница, zh, s=� ...

Description

The expressway comprises two sections. The first section between

and

Karamay Karamay is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city. Karamay w ...

is known as the Kuytun–Karamay Expressway (), or Kuike Expressway () for short. It opened on October 13, 2012,新疆：奎屯市至克拉玛依市高速公路通车 (Xinjiang: Kuytun City to Karamay City Expressway opens).
and is also designated as part of the

G3014 Kuytun–Altay Expressway The Kuytun–Altay Expressway (, ug, كۇيتۇن-ئالتاي يۇقىرى سۈرئەتلىك تاشيولى), commonly referred to as the ''Kui'a Expressway'' (), is an expressway that connects the cities of Kuytun and Altay in Xinjiang, China ...

. The second section from

is known as the Karamay–Tacheng Expressway (), or Keta Expressway () for short. It opened on November 30, 2014.新疆克拉玛依至塔城高速公路通车 (Xinjiang Karamay to Tacheng Expressway opens).

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