(FU XIAOBO)

The construction of a bridge on the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway is completed on August 21.

It is a section of the second line of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway connecting Lanzhou, northwestern Gansu Province, to Urumqi, northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With a length of 1,776 km, the line is the first high-speed railway in Xinjiang and is expected to be put into use during 2014.