Road crossing China's largest desert under construction in Xinjiang

A worker digs for drinking water at a desert road construction site in Taklimakan desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 9, 2018. An over 300-km-long desert road, linking Xinjiang's Yuli County to remote Qiemo County, is now under construction. It's the third that-kind-of road crossing China's largest desert Taklimakan nicknamed "the Sea of Death" in China. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)