Duku Highway Qiao'erma Rest Stop 独库公路乔尔玛段正规停靠点

About Duku Highway Qiao'erma Rest Stop

The county government records that the cemetery is a prefecture-level revolutionary martyrs' memorial site and a Nilka red-education, party-member model education and national-defence education base, and that it was named an autonomous-region classic red-tourism site in 2021. The Tianshan Duku Highway Martyrs' Monument stands inside it on a site of 462 square metres; it was completed on 28 September 1984 and built by the autonomous-region party committee and government together with the Xinjiang Military District, repaired in 2004 with investment from the Xinjiang Transport Department, and in 2006 the county invested 1.8 million yuan to rebuild and expand it into the cemetery that exists today. The monument base is 21.5 m wide at the bottom and 2.4 m at the top and the shaft is 17.3 m high; 168 martyrs' names are listed on it and the reverse carries an inscription in Chinese and Uyghur. The cemetery holds the graves of 168 soldiers who died building the road, each with a granite marker carrying the man's biography, and its memorial hall and relic room display several hundred objects from the construction, including tools, photographs and drawings.

The autonomous-region transport department records that the highway was built from 1974 by several tens of thousands of soldiers and opened to traffic in September 1983, running from Dushanzi in the north to Kuqa in the south; it crosses four ice passes, five rivers and three high-mountain tunnels, and 168 road-builders died on it. The department gives its length as 562.75 km, more than 280 km of it above 2,000 m, and quotes China National Geographic's description of it as a scenic highway spanning the spine of the Tianshan. No cited source designates any stopping place, lay-by or viewpoint on the Qiao'erma section. The only listing in the evidence set that bears on stopping there is the autonomous-region culture and tourism department's page of practical advice, which names Qiao'erma among the highway's refuelling points and lists charging points at Maoliugou service area, the Nalati tourism service area, the Bayanbulak self-driving camp and Kuqa.

What to look for

• The Tianshan Duku Highway Martyrs' Monument, completed on 28 September 1984 and 17.3 m high, with the 168 martyrs' names listed on it and an inscription in Chinese and Uyghur on the reverse.
• The graves of the 168 soldiers who died building the road, each with a granite marker carrying the man's biography.
• The memorial hall and relic room, which the county government says display several hundred objects from the road's construction, including tools, photographs and drawings.
• The glacier landforms around Qiao'erma — the county government records glaciers of the Yilianhabirga and Aburele mountains to the north and south, and cirques, moraines, ice tongues, ice peaks and ice lakes in the valleys.

Location & getting there

Getting to Duku Highway Qiao'erma Rest Stop

Check weather, trail access and the last return service. A mountain or forest area is not one entrance, and a map’s central pin may be far from the trailhead.

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