Shashangou Railway Bridge takes top award

The Shashangou Railway Bridge in the Kumtag Desert, northwestern China's Gansu province, has won the National Quality Engineering Award.

Considered a major project for the Dunhuang-Golmud Railway, which links the city of Dunhuang in Gansu province with Golmud in Qinghai province, the bridge started construction in 2013 and was completed in 2015.

The construction was challenging, partly due to frequent sandstorms and significant temperature differences between day and night, according to China Railway Construction 11th Bureau Group, who built the bridge.

It was the first time that the method of pile foundation construction was carried out in China's desert.