Driving by own car along China.

Found this website:
http://motorhome-china.com/report_dl.html

It looks like you need to go to the 'Traffic Police'


in one of our airports with the right paperwork and get something like this:



Sorry,although I'm from China but I really never knew anything about this .. so hope it will help kay:

^^ From pictures that I have seen: from Moscow until the Chinese border it is almost completely single carriageway, generally in a decent state. These are important routes in the countries crossed. Don't expect perfectly flat tarmac (in other words: potholes), and the Russian part of the route has a reputation for dangerous overtaking. Once in Kazakhstan, the roads will be much emptier so less of an overtaking risk. The main route between Uralsk and Almaty is being upgraded slowly, so expect a combination of old potholed roads and newer stuff that may at times even be a dual carriageway. En route to China, however, you may however find yourself on a more easterly route via Astana whose status I don't know.

From the Chinese border to Urümqi, they are upgrading to motorway (knowing China, it won't take long before it is completed). And from there, it all depends on your route into and out of Tibet. The main routes via Golmud and the G318 seem to be fully tarmac, but I cannot find definitive word. In any event, they run through mountainous terrain, the roads are likely to suffer from one of the harshest climates on the earth and driving in China has its dangers as a result of ill discipline of the average Chinese driver.

It sounds like a terrific drive, but for me the drive is already a great challenge without the Tibetan leg