BRIDGING THE GAP

A 330-km road is being built to connect northern and southern Xinjiang, which is separated by a desert

A road that crosses the Taklimakan Desert, the world's second-largest desert, is being built by hundreds of workers from all over the country work day and night.

The first thing the workers face when building a desert road is the harsh natural environment. The cold, the heat, the sand storms and other factors are all challenges. Engineering equipment can only be transported from outside the desert, which adds a lot of difficulty to the construction process.