Bridging a gully, filling a gap
(WorldNews China)

YINCHUAN -- Ma Dechuan has been living beside a ravine for decades. Before there was a bridge, it used to take him more than 40 minutes to cross it. `I have been walking down and then back up the other side all my life,` said Ma, 70, from Goutan village, Tongxin county in Northwest China`s Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Though only 249 meters wide, the gorge is more than 30 meters deep. Crossing it was like going down 10 floors and then coming all the way back up again. There were no regular steps, just rugged trails. `Elderly...