NINGBO, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A grand ceremony will be
held on Tuesday afternoon to mark the linking of the two ends of a trans-oceanic
bridge that spans Hangzhou Bay near Shanghai on the east China coast, according
to its builders.
The spectacular 36-km-long Hangzhou Bay Bridge starts
at Jiaxing, near Shanghai, and ends at Cixi, about 70 km from Ningbo city in
Zhejiang Province.
It will go into service before the Beijing Summer Olympic
Games begin in August 2008, according to bridge deputy commander-in-chief
Jin Jianming.
The world's longest sea bridge, it will cut the
length of a road trip from Shanghai to bustling Ningbo from 400 km to just 80km.
Hangzhou Bay Bridge is a cable-stayed structure built
at a cost of 11.8 billion yuan (1.42 billion US dollars). Just over half the
funds for the bridge's construction have come from China's private sector -- the
first time the private sector has invested in a public infrastructure project in
China.
Construction of the six-lane bridge, on which motor
vehicles will be able to drive at speeds of up to 100 km per hour, began in Nov.
2003.
In the next few months, workers will begin surfacing
work on the bridge and will finish by the end of November, said Jin.
The bridge highway has been built to last 100 years,
he said.
Hangzhou Bay Bridge's ends set to link
up
BEIJING, June 26 -- The two halves of the Hangzhou
Bay Bridge, the world's longest cross-sea span, are to be linked today after
more than three years of construction. Full story
World's longest bridge span connects
over Yangtze River
NANJING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The two ends of the
bridge with the world's longest span were connected over China's Yangtze River
on Monday. Full story
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