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Great Tea Race of 1866. Ariel and Taeping, by Jack Spurling. In the middle third of the 19th century, the clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain would compete in informal races to be first ship to dock in London with the new crop of each season. The Great Tea Race of 1866 was keenly followed in the press, with an extremely ...
The Beijing–Hong Kong and Macau Expressway ( Chinese: 北京－港澳高速公路 ), designated as G4 and commonly referred to as the Jinggang'ao Expressway ( Chinese: 京港澳高速公路) is a 2,272.65 km (1,412.16 mi)-long expressway [ 1] that connects the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, at the border of ...
The expressway network of China, with the national-level expressway system officially known as the National Trunk Highway System ( Chinese: 中国国家干线公路系统; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guójiā Gànxiàn Gōnglù Xìtǒng; abbreviated as NTHS ), is an integrated system of national and provincial-level expressways in China. [1] [2]
The threat of interception also forced the ABC Ferry Command to fly a difficult 500-mile (800 km) route to China over the Eastern Himalayan Uplift, which came to be known as the "high hump", or more simply, "The Hump". [3] [g] Meili Snow Mountains, prominent landmark on the high Hump. The official history of the Army Air Forces states:
Great-circle navigation. Great-circle navigation or orthodromic navigation (related to orthodromic course; from Ancient Greek ορθός (orthós) 'right angle' and δρόμος (drómos) 'path') is the practice of navigating a vessel (a ship or aircraft) along a great circle. Such routes yield the shortest distance between two points on the globe.
China National Highway 312. China National Highway 312 (312国道), also referred to as Route 312, is a key east-west route beginning in Shanghai and ending at Khorgas, Xinjiang in the Ili River valley, on the border with Kazakhstan. In total it spans 5,000 km (3,100 mi), passing through Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu before ending in ...
The Shanghai–Kunming Expressway ( Chinese: 上海—昆明高速公路 ), designated as G60 and commonly referred to as the Hukun Expressway ( Chinese: 沪昆高速公路) is an expressway that connects the cities of Shanghai, China, and Kunming, Yunnan. It is 2,360 km (1,470 mi) in length. The entire route forms part of Asian Highway 3 .
April 19, 2024 at 5:20 AM. By Ben Blanchard and Ryan Woo. TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Taiwan said on Friday China's decision to open new air routes that run close to two Taiwanese-controlled islands ...