The Mingzhuwan Bridge in Guangzhou's Nansha district is decorated with dazzling lights in the evenings. [Photo by Liu Wei/gznsnews.com.cn]
The Mingzhuwan Bridge in Guangzhou's Nansha district opened to traffic on June 28, after more than three years of construction.
The bridge stretches a total of 9.1 kilometers, and the main section is 2.5 km in length. The main span of the bridge is 436 meters long, breaking a new world record among all bridges that use a similar structure.
The bridge will help form a fast transport corridor among downtown Guangzhou, Hong Kong International Airport, Shenzhen Baoan International Airport and Guangzhou South Railway Station, allowing people in Guangzhou to arrive in the downtown areas of major cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area within 30 minutes.
The construction of the bridge used a lot of new materials, new equipment and new techniques. The engineers involved applied for more than 30 national patents, three overseas patents and over 20 invention patents. Several key technologies applied in the construction have reached a world-leading level.
Yang Mengchun, a staff member from China Railway Construction Bridge Engineering Bureau Group, the bridge's construction company, said that the bridge will help turn Nansha from just the geographic center of the Greater Bay Area to a thriving hub.