China's top political advisor Wang Huning met with visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Beijing on Wednesday.
At the meeting, Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recalled that Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese president, and Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, announced the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, and outlined the new characteristics of relations between the two countries and the Communist Parties of the two countries in the new era.
China will, as always, firmly support Vietnam in pursuing the socialist path suited to the national realities of the country, Wang said.
The CPPCC is willing to work with the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front to contribute to the building of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future.
For his part, Pham Minh Chinh, also member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, said Vietnam and China are connected by the same mountains and rivers, and developing relations between the two Communist Parties and two countries is a strategic choice and top priority of the Vietnam's diplomatic policy.
Vietnam firmly adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to further exchange experience on Party and country governance with China, maintain close and mutually beneficial cooperation, and strive for greater development in Vietnam-China relationship, said the prime minister.
Chinh arrived in Beijing on Tuesday in the start of an official visit to China.
China's top political advisor meets visiting Vietnamese prime minister
China's top political advisor meets visiting Vietnamese prime minister
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, a mega cross-sea highway connecting the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Zhongshan and Guangzhou, will begin pilot operation on Sunday.
The core transportation hub project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will shorten the travel time from Zhongshan to Shenzhen from the current two hours to 30 minutes.
With a total length of 24 kilometers, the link consists of one undersea tunnel, two cross-sea bridges and two artificial islands, making it one of the most challenging cross-sea cluster projects in the world.
The link's undersea tunnel, which is 6.8 kilometers long, has a central pipe gallery that integrates facilities for power supply, water supply and drainage, firefighting, communication and intelligent control, and serves as an emergency exit.
The five-kilometer-long central pipe gallery is laid with hundreds of cables and pipes of various kinds with over 10,000 sets of equipment installed.
The tunnel is equipped with a large number of intelligent devices to ensure its safe and stable operation, including 14 robots, dual-wavelength flame detectors and Beidou satellite navigation signal simulators.
The robots regularly patrol along prescribed routes in the emergency exit and cable channel to monitor the operation of equipment and environment in the pipe gallery.
They can also direct traffic with built-in loudspeakers in cases of car accidents while also filming the scene and transmitting the image to the remote control center in a real time manner.
"We are the first to invent a horizontal smoke exhaust pipe system at the top of the immersed tube undersea tunnel, which improves the smoke exhaust efficiency by 42 percent. We have also established a new firefighting and smoke exhaust technology system for ultra-wide and interchangeable undersea tunnels, effectively ensuring safe fire evacuations," said Ma Ershun, deputy director of the link's management center.
The tunnel is flanked with lights that can change color based on temperature and traffic conditions. In emergencies, the light strips would be red, yellow and green from near to far to guide the evacuation.
The tunnel is also installed with intelligent lighting control devices that can automatically adjust light brightness to levels that are safe and comfortable.
Shenzhen-Zhongshan mega cross-sea link to begin pilot operation
