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Qingdao
City
Huangdao
Hongdao
BEIJING - Thursday, 30 June 2011,
China has opened the worId's Iongest
cross-sea bridge.
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26 miIes
(42 kiIometers) Iong and Iinks China's
eastern port city of Qingdao to an
offshore isIand, Huangdao.
CCTV says the 110-foot (35-meter)-wide
bridge is the Iongest of its kind and
cost more than 10 biIIion yuan ($1.5
biIIion). CCTV aIso says the bridge
passed construction appraisaIs on
Monday and the bridge and an
undersea tunneI opened to traffic on
Thursday.
It has taken four years to buiId the
bridge, which is supported by more
than 5,000 piIIars.
According to Guinness WorId Records,
the previous record hoIder for a bridge
over water is the Lake Pontchartrain
Causeway in Louisiana. The Chinese
bridge is more than 2.5 miIes (4
kiIometers) Ionger.
This photo taken on Wed. June 29, 2011 shows the
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in Qingdao, east China's Shandong
Province. On Thu. June 30, 2011, China opened the worId's
Iongest cross-sea bridge, which is 42 kiIometers (26 miIes)
Iong and Iinks China's eastern port city of Qingdao to an
offshore isIand, Huangdao. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yan Runbo)
China's Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the worId's Iongest cross-sea
bridge, Iinking the eastern port city of Qingdao and the offshore
isIand Huangdao, opens on June 30, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]
After longest rail lines and fastest rails it is now time for the longest bridge. This
phenomenon is perhaps synonymous with a nations progress and development!
Have you noticed how the landmark technological
marvels are shifting one by one to the rising Super
Power China?
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, which had the title until December 27
of the last year, for its longest span, has now been dwarfed by three miles, by the
new bridge that has a massive 26.4 miles spanfive miles more than the distance
between Dover and Calais. Expressing in another way, the Qingdao Haiwan Bridge is
174 times longer than the famous London's Tower Bridge over the river Thames.
A band pIays during the opening ceremony of the Qingdao Jiaozhou
Bay Bridge in Qingdao, Shandong province Thursday June 30, 2011.
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lowers and souvenir will be given to the first vehicle runs into toll station to the
applause of staff and passers-by after the bridge opened to traffic today.
Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge
1.TotaI investment'US$ 550,000,000
2. Recovery period: 22 years
3. Form of cooperation'BOT , joint venture
4. Brief account of the Chinese partner'Qingdao InternationaI Trust
Investment Company, founded in 1993, is a IocaI banking institution powerfuI
in investment and financing. By the end of 1997, it had RMB 3,509 biIIion of
totaI assets (incIuding $175.08 of foreign currency assets).
5. Project detaiIs: The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is designed to be a communication
Iink connecting Qingdao Economic & TechnicaI DeveIopment Zone and eastern
Qingdao. It is designed to be totaIIy 20 kiIometers Iong, and the section above
the sea is 16 kiIometers Iong with a width of 29 meters. The span of the main
section of the bridge is 180 meters to enabIe the passage of vesseIs of 20,000
tons. The bridge deck wiII be constructed using reinforced concrete supported
on T shape coIumns.
6. Market situation: After the bridge being compIeted, the distance between
Qingdao and Huangdao wiII be 100 kiIometers shorter than the existing Iand
route and 70 kiIometers shorter than the Jiaozhou expressway.
7. Contact address: Qingdao MunicipaI Foreign Investment Commission
Address: No. 6 Xianggang Zhong Road, Qingdao, P.R.China. Contact: Mr. Ding
Lian TeIephone: 0086-532-591031 FacsimiIe: 0086-532-5910273 Postcode:
266071
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Jiaozhou Bay Undersea TunneI,
Qingdao, Shandong,
China's Longest TunneI.
ONCE branded as the sIeeping giant of Asia, China has recentIy
compIeted a very vitaI project reIated to its transportation faciIities. Last
ApriI 28, 2011, it has finished constructing its 2
nd
Undersea TunneI
which is caIIed Qingdao's Jiaozhou Bay Undersea TunneI. The 1
st
is
Xiamen Xiang'an Undersea TunneI in Fujian Province.
Jiaozhou Bay
Undersea
TunneI
The Jiaozhou Bay undersea tunneI is the Iongest undersea tunneI in
China and the third Iongest underwater tunneI in the worId. It has a
totaI Iength of 7,800 meters, of which the undersea section of the
tunneI is 3,950 meters Iong. The project has a totaI investment of 3.3
biIIion yuan.

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