20 14 is the 60th anniversary of the Sichuan-Tibet Qinghai-Tibet Highway. The completion and opening to traffic of these two highways is a great achievement of New China under the leadership of the Party, which has played a very important role in promoting Tibet's historic leap in social system and rapid economic and social development, consolidating the southwest frontier and promoting national unity and progress.
At that time, 65,438+10,000 soldiers and civilians United and struggled under extremely difficult conditions, creating a miracle in the history of world highways and ending the history of no highways in Tibet. Over the past 60 years, in the process of highway construction and maintenance, the spirit of "two roads" has been formed and promoted, that is, one is not afraid of hardship, the other is not afraid of death, and is willing to take the road as a stone, the army and the people are integrated, and the nation is United.
Under the new situation, we should continue to carry forward the spirit of "two roads", maintain the two roads well, and ensure smooth flow, so that the Sichuan-Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet highways will always become the road of national unity, the road of Tibetan civilization and progress, and the road of prosperity for compatriots of all ethnic groups in Tibet.
More than 60 years ago, after the peaceful liberation of Tibet, China People's Liberation Army, people of all ethnic groups in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces and engineers and technicians formed a road-building army of 1 1000 people, which fought bravely under extremely difficult conditions, and more than 3,000 heroes died heroically on the plateau.
1954, the Sichuan-Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet highways with a total length of 4,360 kilometers were completed, ending the history of Tibet without modern highways, creating a miracle in the history of highway construction on the "roof of the world" in the "forbidden area on earth", forging the "two roads" spirit of being fearless of hardships and death, tenacious struggle, being a road stone, being a family of soldiers and civilians, and national unity.
In the process of transformation, renovation and maintenance, generations of traffic people have been adhering to the tradition and taking the road as their home, constantly enriching and developing the spirit of "two roads", which has injected a strong spiritual impetus into the development of Tibet's transportation industry.