Amazing Xinjiang: Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway brings China's borderlands closer than ever before Back in the day, traveling from Hotan, northwest #China's #Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to Beijing by train took a week. Driving by car took an entire month. But more than 60 years later, driving from Xinjiang to Beijing now just takes two days. Of course, this holds true if you take the seventh radial line of China's national #expressway network, the Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway, or G7. It is th