To push forward the cultural and sport interchanges between Taiwan and the inland of China and make the compatriots in Taiwan to know more of their motherland, a bicycle orienteering rally through the Taklamakan Desert highway will be held this September in Xinjiang. Some 50 bicycle-fans from Taiwan and 100 others from China's Mainland are expected to attend this orienteering rally.

The desert highway, stretching in the middle of Tarim Basin, also the innermost of Taklamakan desert, the second large one in the world, is the longest highway built in moving desert. The 522-km long road starts from Luntai County, Bayingoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture and ends at Minfeng County, Khotan, south of Xinjiang.

(People's Daily 04/11)