The spirit of the builders of the two plateau highways
The two plateau highways are the Sichuan-Tibet Highway and the Qinghai-Tibet Highway. When the PLA set out in 1950 on their mission to liberate Tibet, Mao Zedong instructed them to build roads as they advanced. So, over the next four years, a contingent of more than 100,000 PLA soldiers, engineers and local residents braved the harsh conditions and completed two highways, covering a total length of 4,360 km, thereby finally giving Tibet access to a modern road system. They created this miracle on "the roof of the world."
During the construction and maintenance of these two highways, a spirit was generated that encourages "facing both hardship and death with great courage, confronting challenges head-on, and fostering army-civilian unity and ethnic solidarity like a family."
“兩路”精神
“兩路”是指川藏公路和青藏公路。1950年,中國人民解放軍奉命進軍西藏時,毛澤東指示進藏部隊“一面進軍,一面修路”。自此之后的四年時間里,中國人民解放軍和四川、青海等省各族人民群眾以及工程技術人員組成了10多萬人的筑路大軍,在艱苦的條件下奮勇拼搏,于1954年建成了總長4360公里的川藏、青藏公路,結束了西藏沒有現代公路的歷史,在“人類生命禁區”的“世界屋脊”創造了公路建設史上的奇跡,鑄造了“一不怕苦、二不怕死,頑強拼搏、甘當路石,軍民一家、民族團結”的“兩路”精神。60多年來,這一精神不斷得到豐富,為交通運輸事業的發展注入了強大精神動力。
