NUR-SULTAN, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Amu Darya Natural Gas Project is located in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan, a Central Asian inland country.

The natural gas project has an annual output of over 10 billion cubic meters, with a peak production of 41 million cubic meters per day.

After being extracted and processed, the natural gas is sent to the southern region of Uzbekistan, where it flows into the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline.

The China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline is China's first transnational gas pipeline.

In Central Asia, some sections of the pipeline run parallel to the ancient Silk Road. Therefore, it's also dubbed the "Energy Silk Road."

Starting from the first station, the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline winds its way for nearly 2,000 kilometers until it reaches Horgos in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Here, the pipeline links up with China's West-to-East Gas Pipeline.

According to PipeChina West Pipeline Company, by the end of last year, the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline had delivered a total of 423.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China since its operation in 2009.

The pipeline has provided gas for more than 500 million residents in 27 provincial-level regions and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Produced by Xinhua Global Service