Builders help weave dreams, win hearts

For Fang Shanzhi, an employee of State-owned builder China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd, building an expressway in the Xizang autonomous region has made his life fruitful and rewarding over the past few years.

In June 2018, Fang and his colleagues arrived in Rinpung county to help construct the Lhasa-Shigatse Expressway — part of the east-west artery Yaan-Yecheng Expressway — whose main construction was completed on Dec 5.

As Party secretary of the CREC4 project department in Rinpung, he has worked with more than 400 Tibetan farmers and herdsmen on the CREC4 task, and leased more than 300 sets of machinery and equipment from the local people, offering them an opportunity to earn more than 20 million yuan ($2.73 million).