Twenty years were needed to lay the thin strip of asphalt that now connects Kashgar, in the extreme west of China, with Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan.

• 在这一条窄窄的路上铺上柏油用了二十年的时间，这条公路现在连接中国最西端的城市喀什和巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡。