Author: SL Lee
Date: 06-28-03 07:26
I visited the Shanghai Orieantal Pearl in late September 2002 and took teh elevator to the top to see all of Shanghai. It was a most enjoyable experience. I witnessed the new Lupu bridge, the longest arch suspension bridge in the world.
I was told that they made the bridges in different styles just for a challenge. The suspension arch bridge which Harley's reference showed in another website is the most diffilut to build.
Now, there will be another first in the making. A bridge will be built to beating the record in length, across the Hangzhou Bay.
http://test.china.org.cn/english/2003/Jun/66479.htm
The 36-kilometre bridge over Hangzhou Bay will create a short cut from Ningbo to Shanghai. Vehicles travelling between the two Yangtze River Delta cities currently have to use the already busy Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo expressway.
The bridge will shorten the journey between Shanghai and Ningbo by 120 kilometres, making it a 179-kilometre journey, Zhejiang Governor Lu Zushan said yesterday.
The construction project involves investment of over 11.8 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion), 35 per cent or around 297 million yuan (US$36 million) of which has been raised by businesses in Zhejiang. Another 7 billion (US$846 million) or 59 per cent was provided as loans from the State Development Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
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SL Lee
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