World's longest sea bridge to open in east China
+ - 13:39, May 01, 2008
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China will inaugurate the world's longest sea crossing bridge on
Thursday as part of effort to boost economic integration and
development in the Yangtze River Delta.
The opening ceremony of the 36-km bridge, which spans Hangzhou Bay
near Shanghai, will be held Thursday afternoon and will open to
traffic on a trial operation basis at midnight.
The 36-km bridge spans Hangzhou Bay near Shanghai.
The bridge links Haiyan, Jiaxing City to Cixi, Ningbo City in Zhejiang
Province.
It will cut the length of the road trip from Shanghai to Ningbo, a
busy ****t, by 120 km. It is designed to last 100 years.
The bridge, with a 32-km section spanning the sea, is a cable-stayed
structure built at a cost of 11.8 billion yuan (1.69 billion U.S.
dollars).
Construction of the six-lane bridge, which will allow a speed of 100
km per hour, began in November 2003.
As a shortcut between Zhejiang and Shanghai, the bridge is expected to
greatly alleviate traffic flow in the booming Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo
triangle.
It will also help boost economic integration and development in the
Yangtze River Delta, which covers almost 100,000 sq km of land
comprising Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu and is home to 72.4 million
people.
Source: Xinhua
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