Remote expressway moves toward completion

The subgrade of an expressway crossing the Tengger Desert in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region was finished recently, keeping the project on schedule to be operational this year.

An 18-kilometer section was built across remote parts of the desert, marking it the first expressway of its kind in the country, China News Service reported.

Construction of the road, with a length of about 123 kilometers, began in December 2018. The main part of the project will be finished at the end of this month. It is part of a longer expressway linking Wuhai in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region with Maqin county in Qinghai province.