Chinese officials have sometimes dismissed calls for more earnest efforts at environmental protection as a foreign scheme to keep the countryunderdeveloped.
The bridge and the government's rural road-development project will connect remote, underdeveloped regions of eastern Mongolia to the country's urban centres and north-east Asia.
If you have unique skills and are interested in traveling to underdeveloped, sometimes dangerous regions, the United Nations Volunteers may have a job for you, sometimes in a country consistently beset with disasters.