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Double-tube highway tunnel opens in NW China |
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| www.chinaview.cn
2007-01-20 14:35:29
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Photo taken on Jan. 17, 2007 shows the
general view of the Zhongnan Mountains Tunnel in northwest China's Shaanxi
Province. With a total investment of 3.2 billion yuan, the
18.02-kilometers-long tunnel, the longest in China will open for traffic
on Sunday. (Xinhua Photo/Tao Ming)
Photo
Gallery>>> | XI'AN,
Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- An 18-kilometer-long, double-tube and four-lane highway
tunnel, the longest double-tube highway tunnel in the world, opened to traffic
on Saturday in northwest China.
The Zhongnanshan highway tunnel, which begins in
Qingcha, Xi'an City and ends in Yingpan, Shangluo City in Shaanxi Province,
allows vehicles to travel up to 80 kmh.
Construction of the tunnel, which ran through the
Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, began in March 2002 at a cost of nearly 3.2
billion yuan (410 million U.S. dollars).
The highway tunnel is part of a national highway
linking Baotou, north China's Inner Mongolia, to Beihai, south China's Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Japan is currently home to the world's second longest double-tube highway tunnel, which is 10.9 kilometers.
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