World's longest sea bridge to open at Hangzhou Bay
27 June 2007
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, Xinhua (in Chinese) reported. 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. Hangzhou Bay Bridge is a cable-stayed structure built at a cost of US$1.42 billion. It will be the world's longest sea bridge and will cut the length of a road trip from Shanghai to Ningbo to just 120km.