Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Qinghai–Tibet and Sichuan–Tibet highways (1954)
On the Mao’s China map as “The roads to Lhasa”
25 Dec 1954 — Two highways, the Qinghai–Tibet and Sichuan–Tibet routes, open to Lhasa. Soldiers built much of them over passes above 4,000 meters, and Golmud grew from the road-builders’ tent camp. For the first time a Chinese government can send an army and its supplies into Tibet by truck, making the 1951 agreement enforceable on Beijing’s terms.
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- Tibet and Xinjiang under Mao (chapter 3 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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