The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest radio telescope, which is located in Pingtang county, has won the 18th Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Prize or "Zhantianyou Prize", the top honor for Chinese civil engineering projects, on Sept 27.

The "Zhantianyou Prize " honors high-tech innovative projects in construction, bridge, tunnel, railway and other projects, focusing on the innovative and technological breakthroughs of incentive projects, as well as the application of new and high-tech achievements.

The FAST project, one of the nine projects winning the construction engineering award, has exceeded the limit of the 100-meter telescope project and created a brand-new model for building a giant radio telescope with new design ideas and unique site advantages.

Thirty projects in total received awards.

Wang Jin contributed to this story.