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."
“两路”精神
“两路”是指川藏公路和青藏公路。1950年,中国人民解放军奉命进军西藏时,毛泽东指示进藏部队“一面进军,一面修路”。自此之后的四年时间里,中国人民解放军和四川、青海等省各族人民群众以及工程技术人员组成了10多万人的筑路大军,在艰苦的条件下奋勇拼搏,于1954年建成了总长4360公里的川藏、青藏公路,结束了西藏没有现代公路的历史,在“人类生命禁区”的“世界屋脊”创造了公路建设史上的奇迹,铸造了“一不怕苦、二不怕死,顽强拼搏、甘当路石,军民一家、民族团结”的“两路”精神。60多年来,这一精神不断得到丰富,为交通运输事业的发展注入了强大精神动力。