When its complete, the road will be China’s longest mountain sightseeing road.Though the construction may scream danger to us, many of the workers are unfazed by the conditions of the job. 48-year-old engineer Yu Ji has worked on this and similar projects for over a decade now, and says ‘I don’t feel it’s so different from any other job. It’s not as dangerous as people think. You just wear ropes then everything is OK.’A glass-bottomed walkway opened in Pingjiang in 2014. Suspended 600ft above ground, the bridge stretches between two mountaintops. It is held up by steel cables, anchoring it to surrounding rocks, but when the wind blows the bridge sways rather heavily, causing quite an unsettling experience for tourists.
Specially trained staff have been employed to help visitors, who often find themselves paralysed by fear, along the path.While there haven’t been any major incidents stemming from the construction, the conditions these men are working under has to be questioned. Surely there are some very simple things that ca
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