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Shanghai's Largest Sports Venue to be Built in Xujiahui

By Ilona Dielis, April 7, 2017

Happy days for sports enthusiasts as Shanghai is set to create its largest public sports venue yet, and it will be open 24/7!

The 406,000 square meter sports complex will feature multiple venues, running tracks, green space and even a swimming pool.

The current area houses Shanghai Stadium (home to Shanghai's SIPG Football Club), which will be revamped, while other buildings in the area will be renovated or demolished to make space for trees and jogging lanes.

The neighboring Shanghai Gymnasium will be expanded and along with continuing to host sports like table tennis, volleyball and badminton, it will also host new events, such as cyber games, boxing and kickboxing.

The swimming pool will also undergo renovations and serve as a training base for teens swimming and diving. It will remain open to the public as well.

Other new additions include, two ring-shaped running tracks which will be connected to the complexes four major venues. There will also be an underground 60,000 square meter venue for locals to participate in yoga, fencing, dancing and table tennis. Beautification to the area includes more grasslands, ponds and public plazas.

Special underground tunnels will contect subway Lines 1 and 11, as well as provide access to warm up fields.

http://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/18431/xujiahui-sports-park

 

[AndrewJin]

Small cities and towns have their beauty too.

Qujing City
Yunnan Province, Southwest China

@Gibbs @anant_s @Godman @Götterdämmerung @waz @AZADPAKISTAN2009

At the beginning of this video, two major expressway bridges are shown, Beipanjiang bridge Duge and Puli bridge.

 

[AndrewJin]

The bridge in Andrew's hometown!

@Godman @ahojunk @TaiShang @Götterdämmerung @powastick @Jlaw @terranMarine

 

[AndrewJin]

Taihu bridge in Suzhou City
Upgrading project under construction

Taihu Bridge (Chinese: 太湖大桥) is a bridge located in Suzhou, Jiangsu, linking Xukou and Xishan Island in the Lake Tai, with a total length of 4,308 meters. The construction began on October 27, 1992 and finished on October 25, 1994. The total cost of this bridge is over 100 million yuan at that time, raised by Wu County. Due to rapid development of tourism, the bridge has been increasingly overcrowded. The municipal government of Suzhou has decided to build a new bridge parallel to this one

Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

 

[grey boy 2]

Undersea tunnel of HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge to be joined together
Source: Xinhua| 2017-04-30 07:41:16|Editor: Yamei

Photo taken on April 28, 2017 shows the west artificial island as part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province. Part of the project, the 5,664-meter-long undersea tunnel is to be joined together on May 2, 2017. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

 

[TaiShang]

Undersea tunnel of HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge to be joined together
Source: Xinhua| 2017-04-30 07:41:16|Editor: Yamei

Photo taken on April 28, 2017 shows the west artificial island as part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province. Part of the project, the 5,664-meter-long undersea tunnel is to be joined together on May 2, 2017. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

Amazing.

Next step, scrap the outdated OCTS model and let people drive, travel, visit freely without any stupid paperwork from one normal province of China to another.

This could also be seen as a nice demonstration project for the proposed cross-Straits bridge/tunnel.

 

[samsara]

Main Tunnel of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
Completes in South China - CCTV+ (2017-04-10)

Published on Apr 11, 2017
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Zhuhai City of south China's Guangdong Province has marked another milestone towards its completion on Monday morning by completing a main tunnel segment linking Zhuhai and Macao.

"We are so excited that although there is a major challenge in the future, the tunnel's completion is really a great encouragement for us," said Liu Zhigang, Engineering Management Department Manager of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai connecting project.

Gongbei tunnel, the main tunnel, is a western part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. It's only 2.7 kilometers long, but what makes it special is that it passes right beneath a customs clearance point at the Gongbei border crossing linking Zhuhai and Macao. And that made its construction a lot more difficult as it wanted to avoid disrupting the running of the customs which clears nearly 300,000 passengers a day.

For this, a special pipe roofing was created for digging the tunnel. Engineers used dozens of curved steel pipes to form a huge outline of the tunnel, a very difficult process to install the pipes due to complicated geological conditions.

The tunnel is one of the most challenging subsea projects in the world. It has a large cross-section, roughly the size of a basketball court. So workers separated the section into a number of smaller parts while digging. The tunnel is designed to have two stories, each with three lanes going the same direction.

Workers had to use a strong brine circulation to freeze the soil and mud outside the tunnel to make it solid enough for safety and to prevent water leakage.

"The project adopted the combination of jacking and freezing. So I think this is actually stretching the limits of this technique and it will be used as a reference in future projects all over the world," said Hans De Wit, CEO of Tunnel Engineering Consultants.

The tunnel, together with the bridge is on target to be fully operational by the end of 2017. It will become the world's longest cross-sea bridge. It consists of 23 kilometers of bridges, seven kilometers of tunnels, and a number of artificial islands.

More at: http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20170411/8047595.shtml

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Another LANDMARK project of China to be COMPLETED in 2017!!!

Happy to see the world's longest cross-sea bridge gets completed this year... after quite many years of great engineering and plenty of hard works... this is simply a monumental project! Please thank to the many nameless & faceless workers who get it done! Just tell me where in the world one may see a comparative project of this magnitude.

 

[AndrewJin]

China's "most beautiful road on water": Long-distance walking in Danjiangkou
Danjiangkou, Hubei Province, Central China

China's "most beautiful road on water": 2,200 people join long-distance walk around Danjiangkou reservoir in Hubei.
The reservoir is water source for the middle route of China's south-to-north water diversion project, which supplies billions of cubic meters of water each year to Henan and Hebei, as well as Beijing.

Main Tunnel of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
Completes in South China - CCTV+ (2017-04-10)

Published on Apr 11, 2017
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge in Zhuhai City of south China's Guangdong Province has marked another milestone towards its completion on Monday morning by completing a main tunnel segment linking Zhuhai and Macao.

"We are so excited that although there is a major challenge in the future, the tunnel's completion is really a great encouragement for us," said Liu Zhigang, Engineering Management Department Manager of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai connecting project.

Gongbei tunnel, the main tunnel, is a western part of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. It's only 2.7 kilometers long, but what makes it special is that it passes right beneath a customs clearance point at the Gongbei border crossing linking Zhuhai and Macao. And that made its construction a lot more difficult as it wanted to avoid disrupting the running of the customs which clears nearly 300,000 passengers a day.

For this, a special pipe roofing was created for digging the tunnel. Engineers used dozens of curved steel pipes to form a huge outline of the tunnel, a very difficult process to install the pipes due to complicated geological conditions.

The tunnel is one of the most challenging subsea projects in the world. It has a large cross-section, roughly the size of a basketball court. So workers separated the section into a number of smaller parts while digging. The tunnel is designed to have two stories, each with three lanes going the same direction.

Workers had to use a strong brine circulation to freeze the soil and mud outside the tunnel to make it solid enough for safety and to prevent water leakage.

"The project adopted the combination of jacking and freezing. So I think this is actually stretching the limits of this technique and it will be used as a reference in future projects all over the world," said Hans De Wit, CEO of Tunnel Engineering Consultants.

The tunnel, together with the bridge is on target to be fully operational by the end of 2017. It will become the world's longest cross-sea bridge. It consists of 23 kilometers of bridges, seven kilometers of tunnels, and a number of artificial islands.

More at: http://www.cctvplus.com/news/20170411/8047595.shtml

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Another LANDMARK project of China to be COMPLETED in 2017!!!

I recall the first time I read about this project in local news long long ago... seems to be of time immemorial.... so remotely distant that I can't remember at what year exactly I did.

It has been delayed for years due to construction hardships.
Anyway, finally finished!

 

[AndrewJin]

Wujiang Bridge Nanmudu
Guizhou Province, Southwest China

320m span,200m high cable-stayed bridge.
The highest 6 lane cable-stayed bridge in the world:

 

[JSCh]

Qingshan Bridge in Nanning opens to traffic
Source:Xinhua| 2017-05-01 22:00:47|Editor: Mengjie

Aerial photo taken on May 1, 2017 shows Qingshan Bridge in Nanning City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The bridge opened to traffic on Monday. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)

 

[samsara]

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge - update on 2017-05-02

Key part of world's longest cross-sea bridge installed.
Over 400,000 tonnes steel used for bridge & tunnel, enough to build 60 Eiffel Towers.

https://twitter.com/x/status/859355162925830144

A brief about Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge （港珠澳大桥 | 港珠澳大橋）

The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge（港珠澳大桥 | 港珠澳大橋）is an ongoing construction project which consists of a series of bridges and tunnels crossing the Lingdingyang Channel that will connect Hong Kong, Macao and Zhuhai, three major cities on the Pearl River Delta in China. The 50-kilometer link is expected to cost US$10.6 billion. With its length, it would become one of the landmarks within the area. The longest bridge section will be 29.6-kilometer long and will include three cable-stayed spans between 280 and 460 meters.

Construction formally began on 15 December 2009. The last bridge tower was erected on 2 June 2016. The last straighted-element of the 4,860-meter long immersed tunnel was installed on 12 July 2016. The bridge is now due to open in December 2017.​

 

[AndrewJin]

Some urban bridges over Gan River in Ganzhou
Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, Central China

@0:48 a floating bridge used for more than 10 centuries since Song Dynasty

 

[samsara]

Some urban bridges over Gan River in Ganzhou
Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, Central China

@0:48 a floating bridge used for more than 10 centuries since Song Dynasty

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He he he... and XINHUA called this inland city, a former revolutionary heartland of the CCP, as rather lagging in development... while the pics and video you posted clearly show it as a modern, developed city, at least to the standard of many cities in the world how misleading the following description about Ganzhou!

I posted in other thread: "Road to prosperity: Freight train from Russia travels 7,000 km to China's underdeveloped inland Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province."

...Ganzhou is an inland area with a complex landscape. It was important in early revolutionary activities due to its remote mountain ranges, but its wartime geographical advantages have now become a stumbling block in development.

The government tried to push regional development in the past few decades, but Ganzhou won no major projects or key investment due to its geography, resulting in slow, sometimes nonexistent, industrial growth.

Many people in Ganzhou are still living in poverty...​

 

[TaiShang]

A key step for world's longest sea bridge

Xinhua, May 3, 2017


A gigantic crane, which was transformed from a tanker, hoists a 6,000-ton key structure of the world's longest cross-sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao, May 2, 2017. The wedge, 12-meter-long and weighing more than 25 Airbus A380 jets, was lowered to connect the immersed tubes of the underground tunnel of the bridge. The 55-kilometer bridge connects Zhuhai in Guangdong Province with Hong Kong and Macao. It includes a 22.9-km bridge and 6.7-km underground tunnel. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)


A gigantic crane, which was transformed from a tanker, hoists a 6,000-ton key structure of the world's longest cross-sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao, May 2, 2017. The wedge, 12-meter-long and weighing more than 25 Airbus A380 jets, was lowered to connect the immersed tubes of the underground tunnel of the bridge. The 55-kilometer bridge connects Zhuhai in Guangdong Province with Hong Kong and Macao. It includes a 22.9-km bridge and 6.7-km underground tunnel. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)


A gigantic crane, which was transformed from a tanker, installs a 6,000-ton key structure of the world's longest cross-sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao, May 2, 2017. The wedge, 12-meter-long and weighing more than 25 Airbus A380 jets, was lowered to connect the immersed tubes of the underground tunnel of the bridge. The 55-kilometer bridge connects Zhuhai in Guangdong Province with Hong Kong and Macao. It includes a 22.9-km bridge and 6.7-km underground tunnel. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

 

[samsara]

Magnificent bridges built in China, spanning over chasm or river,
connect rural area to world & benefit economic development

https://twitter.com/x/status/859609745627332609