China has just opened the longest bridge over the sea. The bridge was stretched across the Gulf of Jiaozhou, Shandong Province, Qingdao, in East China, with a 41.58 km long reach.
The bridge that connects the county town to town in Huangdao district, was built at a cost of 14.8 billion yuan (U.S. $ 2.3 billion or about Rp20 trillion).
The bridge is expected will be passed by about 30 thousand vehicles per day is believed to shorten the distance between two places had a distance of 30 km. This is from the original 40-minute travel time to about 20 minutes, said Han Shouxin, Deputy Director of the Traffic Management Committee of the City.
"The bridge has long been a dream for the citizens of Qingdao," said Chairman of the Party of Qingdao, Li Qun, at the dedication ceremony, as reported by China Daily website.
This bridge has six lanes and the width about 110 feet or about 33.5 meters. Although it is still free, but the Chinese government plans to cite the toll fee of 50 yuan or $ 7.7 (about USD 65 thousand).
The bridge will help smooth the way from the eastern tip of Shandong Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai, Shandong through the center of Rizhao, Linyi, and even into neighboring regions in northern Jiangsu Province.
The bridge was built within four years, and already holds several world records and titles of national awards. Before that, it takes more than 17 years for the government and experts to complete the exploration, planning, design and bidding for the project.
Zhou Fengjun, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, said: "The hardest part is where we must find a way technically to cope with high salt content and the winter ice in the sea of the Gulf of Jiaozhou, so that will not damage the structure of the bridge."
As reported by Time, Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is the sixth longest bridge in the world, ever made. This record-breaking bridge longest bridge over water that is longer than 2.5 miles, defeating Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge in Louisiana, USA.
The bridge is made very sturdy. The Guinness Book of World Records declared the bridge as "bridge withstand earthquakes and typhoons," and designed utuk still function even though struck by a ship weighing 300 thousand tons.
In addition, the Chinese government is also building three other land bridges, namely Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge along the 102 miles, Tianjin Grand Bridge along the 71 miles, as well as the Beijing Grand Bridge along the 30 miles.
Later, the bridges will be the longest in the world, each in the order of unity, second, and fifth of the world. To date, eleven of the 15 world's longest bridge, located in China. (Report: Nina Rahayu | kd)
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