Length 4,243 km | ||
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East end: Dagang Road, Lianyun District, Lianyungang, Jiangsu West end: G312 in Khorgas, Huocheng County, Ili Kazakh, Xinjiang Major cities Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Xuzhou, Lanzhou, Kaifeng | ||
The Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway (Chinese: 连云港－霍尔果斯高速公路), commonly referred to as the Lianhuo Expressway (Chinese: 连霍高速公路), is 4,243-kilometre-long expressway (2,636 mi) in the People's Republic of China that connects the cities of Lianyungang, in the province of Jiangsu, and Khorgas, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, on the border with Kazakhstan. At Khorgas, there is a border crossing into Kazakhstan. The expressway is the longest contiguous expressway in China with a single numeric designation, stretching across the country from the Yellow Sea on the east cost to the Kazakhstan border in the west. It passes through the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Xinjiang.
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Map of G30, Xinjiang Weiwuerzizhiqu, China
The east route from Lianyungang to Xi'an is named in Asian Highway Network, as well as the west route from Xi'an to Khorgas is one part of , and from Urumqi to Toksun is part of .
Route
The expressway passes through the following cities:
Accidents
On February 1, 2013, a truck carrying fireworks exploded on the Yichang Bridge, which carries the Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway, in Mianchi County, Sanmenxia, Henan, causing an 80 m section of bridge to collapse. 13 people died in the accident and 9 were injured.