The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link in south China's Guangdong Province is scheduled to open to traffic on Sunday afternoon after seven years' construction.
Once it is operational, the travel time between Shenzhen and Zhongshan will be reduced from the current two hours to approximately 30 minutes.
The 24-km-long cross-sea highway is a core transportation hub project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with two-way eight lanes and a designed speed of 100 kilometers per hour. It consists of one underwater tunnel, two bridges and two artificial islands, making it one of the most challenging cross-sea cluster projects in the world.
In the years to come, the cross-sea link will contribute to forming the one-hour life circle in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday sent a congratulatory letter on the opening of the cross-sea passage.
Shenzhen-Zhongshan link in Guangdong Province to open to traffic
Shenzhen-Zhongshan link in Guangdong Province to open to traffic
Shenzhen-Zhongshan link in Guangdong Province to open to traffic
Cargo throughput and ship arrivals at China's coastal and inland river ports registered robust growth in the first half of this year, data from the Ministry of Transport shows on Tuesday.
A total of 15,211,700 vessels passed through ports from January to June, up 14.35 percent compared with the same period last year.
The first six months of the year also witnessed cargo throughput growing 4.85 percent to 9.184 billion tonnes.
The robust growth, a sign of the country's thriving maritime trade, is the result of dual circulations, a new economic development paradigm featuring the reinforcement of the domestic and overseas markets.
The past decade has witnessed the application of China's self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the country's waterways. The number of coastal navigation marks in the country has grown 68.8 percent to 20,600 over the past ten years, all of which have been integrated into the BDS.
The country has so far built a coastal BeiDou ground-based augmentation system, consisting of 23 BeiDou differential stations and 75 continuously operating reference stations, representing the world's largest maritime safety system.
Cargo throughput at coastal ports, inland river ports reaches 9.184 bln tons
