A bridge to achievement

SHANGHAI - About an hour's drive from downtown Shanghai, Changxing island lies at the other end of the nearly 9-km-long Shanghai Yangtze River tunnel.

At a sprawling manufacturing complex here, Li Jianghua and hundreds of his colleagues have spent the past five years accomplishing one of the world's most challenging steel fabrication projects.

Standing among giant cranes and pieces of machinery, Li, 55, a man of middle height, looks full of spirit. Behind him is a huge steel module, which will be prepared for shipment to the United States around July 21.