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CHINA IN THE NEWS AGAIN
China’s President Xi Jinping officially opened the world’s longest sea bridge connecting Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China
THE BRIDGE CHINESE ENGINEERING
- It includes a 6.7-kilometer (4-mile) submerged tunnel in order to avoid the busy shipping paths over the Pearl River Delta.
- The tunnel runs between two artificial islands, each measuring 100,000 square meters (1 million square feet) and situated in relatively shallow waters.
SOME POINTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
It will slash the travel time between Hong Kong and Zhuhai from three hours to just 30 minutes The bridge, designed to withstand a magnitude eight earthquake, a super typhoon and strikes by super-sized cargo vessels was built using 400,000 tonnes of steel, enough to build 60 Eiffel Towers.
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The first time the three sides had worked together on a major infrastructure project. Macau, Hong Kong And Mainland China
ARE HONG KONG AND MACAU PART OF CHINA?
Special Administrative Region – SAR The Special Administrative Regions are Hong Kong and Macau, two relatively autonomous regions within the People’s Republic of China that maintain separate legal, administrative and judicial systems from the rest of the country.
CRITICISM
The critics have called the bridge a ‘white elephant’ and a ‘blood and sweat project’, as more than 600 workers were injured during its construction and 10 died.
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