The G3012 Turpan–Hotan Expressway (, ), commonly referred to as the Tuhe Expressway (), is a Chinese expressway that connects the

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

at Xiaocaohu, in

Toksun County Toksun County is a county in Turpan, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Name The term 'Toksun' means 'ninety'. History The Battle of Toksun took place in this county in July 1933 when Khoja Niyas Hajji, a Uyghurs, Uighur leader ...

Turpan Turpan () or Turfan ( zh, s=吐鲁番) is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and a population of 693,988 (2020). The historical center of the ...

, with

China National Highway 315 Constructed in 1954, the Qinghai-Xinjiang Highway, also known as the China National Highway 315 (G315) runs west from Xining, Qinghai towards Kashgar, Xinjiang. It is in length. In 1994 the departments of communication and transportation in Qing ...

Lop County Lop County, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (, Uyghur language, Uyghur: ), also Luopu, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ...

Hotan Prefecture Hotan PrefectureThe official spelling is "Hotan" according to (see also #Etymology, § Etymology) is located in the Tarim Basin region of southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to t ...

. The expressway is a spur of the

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

and is completely in

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

. It is in length, which is unusually long for an expressway under a single sub-national administration, being vastly longer than

Interstate 10 in Texas Interstate 10 (I-10) is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from Anthony, at the border with New Mexico, through El Paso, San Antonio, and Houston to the border ...

. The expressway is fully complete from its northern terminus in Toksun to Yecheng and from

Karakax County Karakax County ( zh, s=墨玉县), alternatively Moyu County, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qaraqash County (; zh, s=喀拉喀什县), alternately Qaraqash, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is located in the souther ...

to its southern terminus in

Hotan Hotan (also known by other names) is a major oasis town in southwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in Northwestern China. The city proper of Hotan broke off from the larger Hotan County to become an administrative area in its own right i ...

. Only a section from Kargilik to

remains to be built. Eventually, the southern terminus will connect with the western end of the G0612 Xining–Hotan Expressway, which is currently in planning.新疆将增加一条出疆高速公路全长300公里 (Xinjiang to add another expressway to the border, total length 300 kilometres).

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