After 5 years of construction, Hangzhou Bay Trans-sea Bridge will be finally linked up by the end of the month. With an estimated price tag of 11.8 billion yuan (1.42 billion US dollars at the start of construction in August, 2003), the 36-km-long bridge will be the longest of its kind in the world.
The stayed-cable bridge links Cixi City on the southern bank of the bay with Jiaxing City on the northern bank of eastern China's Zhejiang Province.
With a designed life span of 100 years, it will have six lanes in two directions, with a designed driving speed of 100 kilometers per hour.
The bridge will shorten the journey between Shanghai and Ningbo by 120 kilometres, making it a 179-kilometre journey,
The bridge will be one of the most important not only in China but in the world for it is not only the longest one (over a sea) but also will be built in the world's most complicated sea environment, with one of the three biggest tides on Earth (Qiantang River Tide), the effect of typhoons and the difficult content of the sea soil. Source: People's Daily & Xinhua
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