Today I want to talk to you about the longest cross sea bridge in the world, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge in China. It's a cross sea bridge across the Gulf of Hangzhou, the longest and the third longest bridge in the world.
The Hangzhou Bay sea crossing bridge in North China starts from Haiyan Zhengjia Dai in Zhejiang Jiaxing and south to Ningbo Cixi waterway Bay. It is the second bridge crossing the sea after the Donghai Bridge in Shanghai Pudong. Its construction will shorten the distance from Ningbo to Shanghai to 179 kilometers.
This cross sea bridge project started in November 2003, completed projects completed in June 2007, and officially opened in May 2008, it Chinese across the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, designed for two-way six lane highway, the design speed of 100 km, the design life of 100 years, the total investment of the project a total of 11 billion 800 million yuan.
In addition, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge a total length of 36 kilometers, it is between Bahrain and Saudi King Fahd bridge is 11 kilometers long, has become the Chinese Association of world records in the world's longest cross sea bridge candidate world record, is a convenient channel for main line highway with three lines across the Hangzhou bay.
In the construction of the bridge, China first introduced the concept of the landscape design of the bridge by means of "aesthetic idea of Long bridge lying waves, the overall presentation of S curve, has high ornamental and sightseeing. The 2008 Olympic torch relay passed through the Hangzhou Bay sea crossing bridge.
In the South Channel south, about 14 kilometers from the south bank, there is a offshore platform with an area of 12 thousand square meters. The platform is the rescue platform for the sea traffic service of the sea crossing bridge, and it is also an excellent tourist resort, attracting many tourists.
The Hangzhou Bay Bridge is Chinese own design, management, self investment, self construction, the entire project size, set six world or the most domestic steel consumption, it is equivalent to the construction of the 7 "bird's nest", with concrete amount equivalent to 10 National Grand Theatre, the bridge can withstand 12 above the level of the typhoon.
The Hangzhou Bay sea crossing bridge is also a "digital bridge" in China. It uses a variety of network technology, artificial intelligence technology and other disciplines of knowledge, the establishment of a scientific evaluation system of a set of bridge design, construction and management of the whole bridge is provided with a central monitoring system, the average per 1 km 1 to monitor the condition of the bridges in real-time control.
The construction of the Hangzhou Bay Cross Sea Bridge alleviated the traffic pressure of the crowded Shanghai Hangzhou Expressway and promoted the formation of the two hour traffic circle in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. What do you think of this bridge?