67 years ago today, on July 27, 1958 (June 11, 1958 in the lunar calendar), the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway was opened to traffic. Baotou Station The Baotou Railway runs from Baotou to Lanzhou, with a total length of 990 kilometers. Construction started in October 1954, opened to traffic in July 1958, and delivered to operation in October 1958. The Baotou-Lanzhou Railway passes through the Tengger Desert between Zhongwei and Gantang. The entire line runs through the desert for 140 kilometers. It was a railway built in the desert in China in the 1950s. The measures taken to prevent and control desertification won the 1987 National Science and Technology Progress Special Award. Wuwei, from Gantang on the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway to the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway, built the Ganzhou-Wuhan Link in 1965, with a length of 172 kilometers, thus shortening the journey from North China to Northwest China. This railway is an important trunk line from North China to Northwest China and plays an important role in accelerating the economic construction of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Gansu. When the train passes through the Shapotou Desert and Hanhai Desert to lay rails, sand barriers built along the line control quicksand.