Yunnan-Xizang Highway: Beautiful scenery along the way

This is a drone photo of Meili Snow Mountain in Diqeng Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, taken on July 2, 2026

On July 6, 1976, Xinhua News Agency announced that the entire Yunnan-Xizang Highway had been completed and opened to traffic. This important traffic trunk line in the southwest frontier starts from Dali in Yunnan Province in the south and ends at Mangkang in Xizang in the north. It crosses the Jinsha River and Lancang River and connects Cangshan and Erhai, the Old Town of Lijiang, Meili Snow Mountain and other world-class landscape cultural landscapes.

This is the Jinsha River Grand Bay captured on July 1, 2026.

Gusheng Village and Erhai Lake scenery in Dali City, Yunnan Province (taken on May 6, 2024, drone photo).

Tourists are visiting the Three Towers of Chongsheng Temple in Dali City, Yunnan Province (information photos, drone photos).