At present, in the southern section of Duku Highway, the snow cleaning work has come to an end. However, because Duku Highway is a typical mountain road with a complex geological environment and often has dangers such as landslides, mudslides, rock collapses, etc., the highway department is intensively carrying out road maintenance operations. One of the maintenance workers has been guarding this highway for 32 years. He is Yakfu Keranmu, a maintenance worker at Kuqa Maintenance Center. He started to maintain this highway when he started working at the age of 18. More than 30 years have passed, and he still sticks to this "most beautiful highway" and paves the way to the Tianshan Mountains with practical actions.

Kuche Maintenance Worker Yakfu Keranmu: Install mesh to block the stone. After installation, this small stone will not fall off easily. It is such a stone, look. This is the most dangerous place, the place where the stones fall off the most, and the vehicles driving on the road are unsafe.

The person who was hanging the cliff was Yakfu Keranmu. He came to the protective net reinforcement operation site in the southern section of Duku Highway early in the morning, and was busy hanging the cliff net that was close to the vertical. Although he is over fifty years old, he is very flexible when hanging in the air and is very skillful in movements.

Kuche Maintenance Worker Yakfu Keranmu: The first important task to install a protective net in 2005 is to install a protective net. Why, look, if such a stone does not install a protective net, the stone will fall down and affect people's safety. Before Duku Highway is opened, this protective net will be hung.

Looking from the bottom of the mountain, the safety nets covering the cliffs protect the safety of passing vehicles.

Affected by the winter snowfall and icing in the Tianshan Mountains, Duku Highway has a "hibernation period" for more than half a year every year. From October to June of the following year, Duku Highway will be covered with snow. Kuche Maintenance Office is mainly responsible for cleaning the ditch over 180 kilometers of the southern section of Duku Highway, protecting nets, and riverside roadbed reinforcement.

In addition to hanging the protective net, Yakfu also wants to take everyone to clear the side ditches on both sides of the road. The side ditch is drained for the road during the melting snow and rain. The side ditch in the southern section of Duku Highway is more than 100 kilometers, which requires Yakfu and others to clean it manually, which is a lot of work.

Kuche Maintenance Worker Yakfu Keranmu: Clean the side ditch, clean the road surface, and do all maintenance work before traveling.

At around 2 p.m., Yakfu asked everyone to stop for lunch. In the past few days, Yakfu and his colleagues are going to maintain the frozen roads for a winter before the Duku Highway is opened to traffic. They often don’t have time to go back to the maintenance station to rest, and they can only deal with lunch on the roadside.

After a simple lunch, Yakfu and his colleagues returned to the road and became busy. An unexpected happens at this time.

Kuche Maintenance Worker Yakfu Keranmu: The mudslide flowed, the stones came down, and the upper ditch was blocked. This piece needs our loader to clean it.

This situation of blocking the road was common for Yakfu and his colleagues. Soon a large machine came to the scene to cooperate with the workers. After a while, the road was cleared.

Kuche Maintenance Worker Yakfu Keranmu: We did it manually, but now we are doing it mechanically, and now we are getting better and better. We have all repaired it until June. After repairing it, the road has been opened. When tourists come, they are willing to come. Our beautiful Duku Highway is back and back happily.