The Qingdao Bay Bridge, also known as Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, is located in Qingdao, Shandong, China. It is a huge cross sea bridge designed, constructed and built by China. Qingdao city planning of Jiaozhou bay cross sea channel "on both sides of a road, a bridge, a tunnel in the" bridge "".
Since Haier bridge in Qingdao Road, Huangdao bridge to the island, a total length of 36.48 kilometers, the investment amounted to nearly 10 billion, which lasted 4 years. The bridge was opened all over the line in June 30, 2011.
The Qingdao Bay Bridge project is operated by Shandong high speed investment and tied up with the Jiaozhou Bay. The project is the largest transportation infrastructure project invested by a wholly state-owned enterprise in China. It is the first super large bridge cluster project in the frozen sea area of northern China, plus the approach and connection lines. The total scale is the world's first bridge.
In June 4, 2013, the "Bridge City" in Pittsburgh, the thirtieth International Bridge Conference (IBC) to Shandong expressway of Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the George Richardson prize, which is the highest international award so far obtained Chinese bridge engineering. Previously, the bridge was named "the best bridge in the world" by Forbes in the United States in September 2011.