Workers weld pipes at the construction site of the second project of the west-to-east natural gas transmission pipeline in Fengle Town of Wuwei City, northwest China's Gansu Province, in March 2008. The 9,102 km pipeline, which will carry natural gas from Turkmenistan and Uygur region to central and west China, is designed with a gas transmission capacity of 30 billion cubic meters annually. The total investment on the project is 142.2 billion yuan (about US$20 bn)
Photograph: Xinhua News Agency/AP
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