China Expressways, Highways: News & Discussions

[AndrewJin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_(state)

@Chinese Bamboo @hexagonsnow @JSCh @FairAndUnbiased @dy1022

 

[AndrewJin]

Chu Kingdom style railway stations in Hubei Province
Wuchang Railway Station, Wuhan City

Xianning North HSR Station, Xianning City

Jingzhou HSR Station, Jingzhou City

@Jlaw @Chinese Bamboo@dy1022

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Doesnt Chu kingdom speak Cantonese?

The Cantonese belongs to the Qin dialect, while the Shanghainese and many other modern central-east dialects belong to the Chu dialect.

 

[CHN Bamboo]

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I like the building on the right side.

The other blue buildings do not respect historical culture..

http://topic.cnhubei.com/2013/1218/100924.shtml

The roof should be made of wood,and usually red&black were used on buildings..

 

[AndrewJin]

I like the building on the right side.

The other blue buildings do not respect historical culture..View attachment 312459

http://topic.cnhubei.com/2013/1218/100924.shtml

The roof should be made of wood,and usually red&black were used on buildings..

I don't think they look like Chu style buildings 2500 years ago.
Maybe just like those buildings in Hubei 1000 years ago.

 

[AndrewJin]

This series of documentaries are about China's 5-year plan, some sort of summary of the 12th 5-year plan and a visionary prospect of 13th 5-year plan.
Episode 4 is about transportation and communication.
Enjoy! (No English is available except for interviews with foreigners)

We should have a clear mind that our infra is far from sufficient.
No one should be blindly satisfactory about we have achieved.
I travel extensively around China, I can say there are still so many places where infra is in urgent need.
Even in cities like Shanghai, infra is far from enough.
13th 5-year plan is the critical phase in which we continue building the basic infra around the country.
And we should understand we need more 5-year plans to spread dragon's inclusive growth to every corner of China.
Never feel self-content and work harder!

@ahojunk @Tiqiu @GS Zhou @Dungeness @Chinese-Dragon @ChineseTiger1986 @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @cnleio @Beidou2020 @chauism @cirr @bobsm @Jguo @JSCh et al.

2:00 Balinghe Bridge (G60 Shanghai-Kunming National Expressway), 2237m long, 370m high

6:50 Qingshui River Bridge 1130m long, 406m high （Guizhou-Weng'an Provincial Expressway)

14:50 Dadushan 350km/h HSR Tunnel 11.82km long on Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Rail
5 years' hard work, transverse the most difficult Karst caves and mountains

25:00 Lanzhou Subway, across Yellow River
Powered by China's own TBM

38:00 E-commerce in the village
Broadband connection to 98% of rural families at 50k villages, 140 billion yuan spent during 13th 5-y plan

41:30 Underground pipelines

44:00 Ports

Vert impressed.
A lot of chief engineers of HSR/bridge/subway projects are only in their 20s-30s.

 

[GS Zhou]

This series of documentaries are about China's 5-year plan, some sort of summary of the 12th 5-year plan and a visionary prospect of 13th 5-year plan.
Episode 4 is about transportation and communication.
Enjoy! (No English is available except for interviews with foreigners)

We should have a clear mind that our infra is far from sufficient.
No one should be blindly satisfactory about we have achieved.
I travel extensively around China, I can say there are still so many places where infra is in urgent need.
Even in cities like Shanghai, infra is far from enough.
13th 5-year plan is the critical phase in which we continue building the basic infra around the country.
And we should understand we need more 5-year plans to spread dragon's inclusive growth to every corner of China.
Never feel self-content and work harder!

@ahojunk @Tiqiu @GS Zhou @Dungeness @Chinese-Dragon @ChineseTiger1986 @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @cnleio @Beidou2020 @chauism @cirr @bobsm @Jguo @JSCh et al.

2:00 Balinghe Bridge (G60 Shanghai-Kunming National Expressway), 2237m long, 370m high
View attachment 312559

6:50 Qingshui River Bridge 1130m long, 406m high （Guizhou-Weng'an Provincial Expressway)
View attachment 312568

14:50 Dadushan 350km/h HSR Tunnel 11.82km long on Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Rail
5 years' hard work, transverse the most difficult Karst caves and mountains
View attachment 312575

25:00 Lanzhou Subway, across Yellow River
Powered by China's own TBM
View attachment 312576 View attachment 312578 View attachment 312577

38:00 E-commerce in the village
Broadband connection to 98% of rural families at 50k villages, 140 billion yuan spent during 13th 5-y plan

41:30 Underground pipelines
View attachment 312587

44:00 Ports

Vert impressed.
A lot of chief engineers of HSR/bridge/subway projects are only in their 20s-30s.

有时候不得不感慨，我朝的基建真他妈丧心病狂。

 

[AndrewJin]

有时候不得不感慨，我朝的基建真他妈丧心病狂。

Guizhou Provincial Expressway
Guiyang-Weng'an
Qingshuihe Bridge

@Bussard Ramjet @Götterdämmerung @Yizhi @Gibbs @waz

 

[AndrewJin]

Expressway construction
One vital aspect of the poverty reduction strategies in Guangxi Autonomous Region

Chongzuo-Jingxi Provincial Expressway launched
2 cities and 2 counties connected!

Highlights
147.6km long
60.7km-long affiliated connection highways linking the expressway with townships and villages
designed speed: 100km/h
standardised 4-lane controlled-access
start construction in April 2013

The first expressway of Daxing County and Tiandeng County

9 ramps
3 service centres and 3 parking lots

connect 4 class-1 border ports and 2 class-2 border ports
The final section inaugurated of the shortest Yunnan-sea high-speed corridor

Connected with National Expressways G7211 & G69

Warning from Andrew
Get prepared for the upcoming tourism booming！
@ahojunk @Bussard Ramjet @Mista @grey boy 2 @Tiqiu @Beidou2020 @Bussard Ramjet et al

@Gibbs @Götterdämmerung @waz @Echo_419 @DESERT FIGHTER et al

 

[cirr]

有时候不得不感慨，我朝的基建真他妈丧心病狂。

丧心病狂 indeed! Indeed 丧心病狂!

And AndrewJin is only showing the tip of a gargantuan iceberg.

@ahojunk @Bussard Ramjet @Mista @grey boy 2 @Tiqiu @Beidou2020 et al
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@Gibbs @Götterdämmerung @waz @Echo_419 @DESERT FIGHTER et al

江山多娇。

 

[AndrewJin]

丧心病狂 indeed! Indeed 丧心病狂!

And AndrewJin is only showing the tip of a gargantuan iceberg.



江山多娇。

Yes, too many new projects open every day.
I can't post every news.
For example, today some shorter expressways are launched in Eastern China.
I was just thinking....nah, forget about it.
I mainly focus on projects in the interior.
Shenzhen's 10th expressway is not news, but Daxing County's first is.

 

[AndrewJin]

Expressways in Southwest China are simply amazing!
I can't help myself posting more news and videos about them.
Now, some videos about Shanghai-Kunming National Expressway G60.
But I'm not sure if this video was about G60 in Guizhou Province or Yunnan Province?
From the buildings, it seemed in Guizhou.
@cirr @hirobo2 @GS Zhou @

This video is about Hutiao River (tiger leaping river) and Hutiaohe Bridge
Hutiaohe bridge,total length 1958 meters beam bridge,has four main span each 225 meters. High 209m from deck to water,tallest pier 150 meters tall,it's one of the largest beam bridges in the world,belong G60,Shanghai to Kunming expressway. Located in Yingwuxiang,Panxian county,Guizhou.

In Southwest China, I personally have driven or taken a coach on G60(Guizhou section), G56(Yunnan section), G5611 (Dali & Lijiang), G5 (Deyang-Mianyang-Chengdu-Ya'an) and several other expressways such as Nanning to Sino-Viet border and Chongqing's numerous expressways. Every single one is amazing, any expressway in Shanghai or Wuhan is incomparable! Though from my limited experiences there, I know Southwest China really lags behind in terms of infra (road, railways, commutations, electricity, hospitals, tourist infra). Hope after 13th 5-year plan, when I revisit there, things can be much better.


@Bussard Ramjet @Mista @Taygibay @onebyone @Nan Yang et al.

 

[Taygibay]

^^^​

Kudos to China! Infrastructures spending is a must for a modern country.
And to think that of the big players, America is at present by far the most
lackadaisical on such things only makes that good work more important.

Have a great day, Tay.

 

[AndrewJin]

^^^​

Kudos to China! Infrastructures spending is a must for a modern country.
And to think that of the big players, America is at present by far the most
lackadaisical on such things only makes that good work more important.

Have a great day, Tay.

China has simply been speeding up spending on infra because we still have large areas without proper infra, even in my city where per capita is nearly $20000 lack of sufficient infra is still a big issue.
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And I firmly believe infrastructure is the precondition of radical poverty reduction.
Giving people money is only a populist temporary way, but providing them opportunities are fundamental.

Enjoy!
Central China Hunan Province's Aizhai Bridge

The Aizhai Bridge (Chinese: 矮寨大桥) is a suspension bridge on the G65 Baotou–Maoming Expressway near Jishou, Hunan, China. The bridge was built as part of an expressway from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to Changsha.

With a main span of 1,146 metres (3,760 ft) and a deck height of 336 metres (1,102 ft),[3] as of 2013, it is the seventh-highest bridge in the world and the world's fifteenth-longest suspension bridge. Of the world's 400 or so highest bridges, none has a main span as long as Aizhai.[4] It is also the world's highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge.[5] The bridge contains 1888 lights to increase visibility at night.[6]

Construction on the Aizhai Bridge began in October 2007 and was completed by the end of 2011, ahead of schedule.[7][8] The bridge was temporarily opened to pedestrians during the 2012 Spring Festival[8] and was formally opened to traffic in March 2012.[9]

The bridge was built with the assistance of a $208 million loan from the Asian Development Bank; the total project cost was $610 million, which included 64 kilometres (40 mi) of expressway construction (two thirds of which comprised bridge and tunnel) and upgrades to 129 kilometres (80 mi) of local roads.[10] The bridge and the associated road construction were projected to reduce the travel time between Jishou and Chadong from 4 hours to less than 1 hour.[10][11]

In September 2012, the Aizhai Bridge was the site of an international BASE jumping festival that included more than 40 jumpers from 13 countries.[12][13][14]

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Guozigoui Bridge or Talki Bridge (تەلكى كۆۋرۈكى, Талки Коврук) is a cable stayed bridge with a main span of 360 metres (1,180 ft). The bridge was opened in 2011 forms part of G30 Lianyungang–Khorgas Expressway in Huocheng County, Xinjiang. The bridge forms part of a spiral crossing over the expressway 180 metres (590 ft) below. The bridge and associated spiral allow for navigatable gradients.

@Bussard Ramjet @Yizhi @waz @ChineseTiger1986

 

[AndrewJin]

Having spent most of our time in this thread navigating expressways in the Central China and Western China,
now let's have some different scenery.

Nanjing Nanjing!
Capital of Jiangsu Province
Capital of Republic of China before 1949 and numerous ancient dynasties

Controlled-access expressway network in Nanjing City

@Tiqiu @Mista @Bussard Ramjet @ahojunk @onebyone @Beast et al.