China opens the world's longest seaport bridge, connecting Hong Kong and Macau

China continues to shock the world with its massive works. A bridge across the sea connects between Hongkong and Macau and uses enough steel to build 60 Eiffel towers.

In the next decade, China is planning to encourage about 250 million of its people to live in the country's growing megacities. To prepare for this transition, the country has invested tens of billions of dollars to upgrade the transport infrastructure system, including large projects such as a connecting bridge over the sea. and shorten the distance between Macau and Hongkong.

It is known that in April, China will start opening its record-breaking north-bridge bridge up to 55km, connecting Hong Kong and Macau. This bridge is expected to reduce the travel time between these two special economic zones to half that of the past.

Let's admire the massiveness of the Hong Kong - Hai Phong - Macau sea bridge project through the images below:

Photos of the tunnel down the tunnel of the Hong Kong - Chau Hai - Macau bridge system recorded on March 28 last.

The Hong Kong - Hai Hai - Macau bridge crossing project helps to reduce the time to move from Hong Kong to Macau to half.

People from now on can travel from Hongkong to Macau for about an hour.

This is the diagram, the location of the sea bridge.

The bridge will have 6 lanes and 4 tunnels, including 1 tunnel through the sea.

In order to serve the construction of the bridge, China also had to build small artificial islands on this north-sea route.

This bridge is considered a new wonder of the world construction industry.It was made of 420,000 tons of steel, enough to build up to 60 Eiffel towers.

Steep ramps spread over the sea.

Approximately 40,000 vehicles are expected to pass through the bridge daily, including a fast bus line that crosses the bridge with a frequency of 10 minutes per trip.

Bridges will not allow pedestrians, rudimentary vehicles, bicycles and motorcycles to use.All lanes will be for cars only.

As expected, this bridge will be inaugurated and able to serve people in about . 120 years.

The total cost of constructing this bridge has not been disclosed, but according to a local government report, it could amount to 15 billion USD.

The project has caused a lot of controversy due to expensive costs, late construction schedule as well as concerns about safety for workers participating in construction.As noted, there are 2 accidents causing damage to people that happened along with 19 violations of the quality of concrete.

The bridge construction period lasts more than 7 years.This is an image taken in 2012 when China built an artificial island to build a pillar for this bridge near Hongshan Island in Hong Kong.