Wokers lay the first box girder onto bridge pillars of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway crossing the wind field, which is dubbed as "ghost" for that windstorms of above 100 km per hour often running through it which once overthrown a train in 2007, in Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 30, 2010. Workers began laying 900-ton box girders on Tuesday onto those pillars with a total length of 7.795 km in the "ghost" wind field. The box girder laying operation will be finished by next April. [Xinhua]
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