China Expressways, Highways: News & Discussions

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First Yangtze River Bridge

 

[cirr]

Marvelous aerial scenery over highland highway in Tibet

2017-12-26 13:49 Ecns.cn Editor:Yao Lan

A set of aerial photos of the Nyingchi-Lhasa highway in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region following a snowfall become popular recently. With an average height of 3,000-meters, and passing through the 5,000-meter Mila Mountain, the highway resembles a road flying over the plateau. Thanks to this highway, the journey from Lhasa to Nyingchi is shortened from an 8-hour drive to 4 hours. Due to the special geographic location, the scenery on the road is diverse, and includes snow-capped mountains forests, rivers, wetlands, grasslands, farmlands and Tibetan-style village, making it the most beautiful highland road in China. (Photo: China News Service/Yang Jian)

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/945921537844097024

China Xinhua
Xingkang extra-large bridge, the first bridge linking SW China's Sichuan and Tibet is under steady construction

 

[JSCh]

New highway linking Chongqing and Hubei opens to traffic
Source: Xinhua| 2017-12-26 21:52:26|Editor: Liangyu

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows Fengziwan bridge of the Wanzhou-Lichuan highway. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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Constructors run to celebrate the opening of Wanzhou-Lichuan highway Chongqing section on the Fuma Yangtze river bridge in Chongqing, southwest China, Dec. 26, 2017. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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File photo shows Fuma Yangtze river bridge of the Wanzhou-Lichuan highway in Chongqing, southwest China. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua)

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows Wanzhou-Lichuan highway. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows a toll station on the Wanzhou-Lichuan highway in Chongqing, southwest China. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows Wanzhou-Lichuan highway. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

 

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New highway linking Chongqing and Hubei opens to traffic
Source: Xinhua| 2017-12-26 21:52:26|Editor: Liangyu

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows Fengziwan bridge of the Wanzhou-Lichuan highway. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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Constructors run to celebrate the opening of Wanzhou-Lichuan highway Chongqing section on the Fuma Yangtze river bridge in Chongqing, southwest China, Dec. 26, 2017. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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File photo shows Fuma Yangtze river bridge of the Wanzhou-Lichuan highway in Chongqing, southwest China. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua)

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows Wanzhou-Lichuan highway. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows a toll station on the Wanzhou-Lichuan highway in Chongqing, southwest China. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 26, 2017 shows Wanzhou-Lichuan highway. The highway, linking Wanzhou District of southwest China's Chongqing and Lichuan City of central China's Hubei Province, opened to traffic on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Liu Chan)

This is awesome!
Has Hubei Province achieved the goal of every county linking with an expressway?

26 December 2017!
Several hundred infra projects open to the public in Hubei Province

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Tens of controlled-access expressways open in the final week of 2017!
Guangdong Province alone sees opening of SEVEN, reaching 8338km, longest in China

Newly opened Zhanjiang-Shantou expressway

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Five expressways start construction in Shannxi Province on 27 Dec 2017
To achieve every-county-has-expressway goal in 2020
5279km in 2017
6500km in 2020
Total plan 8000km


按照陕西省“2367”高速公路网规划，即2条环形线、3条南北纵向线、6条以西安为中心的辐射线、7条东西横向线和18条联络线，规划总里程8000公里，其中国家高速公路5800公里，省级高速公路2200公里，省际出口30个。截至2017年底，全省高速公路通车里程达到5279公里，实现98个县（区）通高速公路，省际出口达到21个；在建高速公路项目22个，里程约1500公里。到2020年，全省高速公路通车总里程将突破6500公里，实现“县县通高速”，省际出口达到27个。

记者从集中开工仪式现场获悉，此次集中开工的西安外环南段、延长至黄龙、宁陕至石泉、旬邑至凤翔、韩城至黄龙等5条高速公路，是陕西省“2367”高速公路网的重要组成部分，也是实现全省“十三五”县县通高速目标的重点项目，涉及西安、宝鸡、咸阳、延安、安康、韩城等6市11县2区，遍布关中、陕南、陕北三大区域。这5条高速公路建成开通后，对于进一步优化陕西省高速公路网布局，缓解区域交通压力，实现各条高速公路互联互通具有十分重要的作用。届时，沿线人民群众出行将更加便利快捷，区域交通条件将得到显著改善，为社会经济发展提供更为坚实的交通运输保障。

 

[TaiShang]

Bridge with largest span under construction

Xinhua, December 29, 2017


Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2017 shows the No. 28 main pier construction site of Shanghai-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu Province. The Shanghai-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge, main span of which is 1,092 meters, is a cable-stayed railway-expressway bridge with the world's largest span. The middle pylon of the No. 28 main pier was successfully joined here Thursday. (Xinhua/Xu Congjun)





http://www.china.org.cn/photos/2017-12/29/content_50175486_3.htm

 

[TaiShang]

Another Yangtze bridge opens
2017-12-28

Zhuankou Yangtze Bridge, the widest bridge over the Yangtze River, opened for traffic on Thursday.

The bridge, with eight lanes, is the ninth bridge over the Yangtze in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.

Excluding the highway on both sides, the bridge itself is 1,510 meters long and 46 meters wide.

Costing 5.2 billion yuan (about 780 million U.S. dollars), the bridge will be the main road for trucks crossing the river.

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/1712288425/

 

[JSCh]

World's highest highway tunnel in SW China cuts driving time across Mt. Erlang
CGTN
Published on Dec 31, 2017

The newly built Mt. Erlang Tunnel has cut driving time across Mt. Erlang from a full day to just 15 minutes. The tunnel is the world's highest highway tunnel. Mt. Erlang is located at the border between Ya'an City and the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province with very steep mountains.

 

[AndrewJin]

Jingxi to Napo Expressway

Jingxi to Napo expressway is located in Guangxi province, from Jingxi county to Napo county,
not far from Vietnam border.

@TaiShang @powastick @AViet @Godman @Han Patriot @Gibbs @HAIDER et al

 

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How hard it is for a highway to pierce through 2km high mountains?
By Gong Zhe
2018-01-01 14:45 GMT+8

A new highway was opened in southwestern China on Sunday, connecting the Tibet Plateau with lower grounds.

The highway, which is about 100 kilometers long, demonstrates the skill of Chinese engineers and workers as the road had to be built between extremely high mountains and deep valleys.

At the west end of the Ya'an-Kangding highway is Kangding city, which is 2,500 meters higher than the east end at Ya'an.

And the road goes through one of the highest mountains in the world: The Hengduan Mountain.

A map of the elevation in the area. The highest point on the left mountainous area is above 5,000 meters, while the plain on the right is only 500 meters above sea level. /CGTN Photo

Hengduan stands roughly 1,500 kilometers to the east of the Himalayas. The name "Hengduan" literally means "total blockage" in Chinese.

More than 82 percent of the highway is made of bridges and tunnels designed to smooth the steep cliffs along the way, making it one of the hardest engineering projects in China.

A total of 40,000 LED lights were installed in the tunnels to keep the drivers focused. /Chinanews.com Photo‍

Ready to be rocked

Another problem with roads in the area is ground movement. The highway is located not far away from Wenchuan City, the epicenter of China's worst earthquake in the last decade, which killed nearly 70,000 people on May 12, 2008.

We have a detailed explainer of why this area is frequently jolted.

Transportation is one of the keys for earthquake rescue and the engineers of the new highway made use of China's latest technology to monitor the ground movement.

Road restored after landslide /Chinanews.com Photo

A total of 72 monitor sites were installed along the road, all equipped with Beidou satellite positioning chips.

Any ground movement further than 2.5 millimeters will trigger alerts, according to Huang Bing, CEO of the company that runs the road.

Huang Bing talks with CCTV reporters by the highway. /Screenshot from CCTV

The Ya'an-Kangding highway is part of the national G4218 highway, which is the first of its kind to reach the Tibetans in Sichuan Province. The road is expected to bring faster economic growth and benefit the people.

"I'm very happy with the highway," Yang Tianzhi, an intercity bus driver, told CCTV. "I can say goodbye to the old, cliffy and snowy road now."

The highway is an addition to the existing Sichuan-Tibet railway, offering another option for traveling between Sichuan and Tibet, both in southwest China.

 

[AndrewJin]

How hard it is for a highway to pierce through 2km high mountains?
By Gong Zhe
2018-01-01 14:45 GMT+8

A new highway was opened in southwestern China on Sunday, connecting the Tibet Plateau with lower grounds.

The highway, which is about 100 kilometers long, demonstrates the skill of Chinese engineers and workers as the road had to be built between extremely high mountains and deep valleys.

At the west end of the Ya'an-Kangding highway is Kangding city, which is 2,500 meters higher than the east end at Ya'an.

And the road goes through one of the highest mountains in the world: The Hengduan Mountain.

A map of the elevation in the area. The highest point on the left mountainous area is above 5,000 meters, while the plain on the right is only 500 meters above sea level. /CGTN Photo

Hengduan stands roughly 1,500 kilometers to the east of the Himalayas. The name "Hengduan" literally means "total blockage" in Chinese.

More than 82 percent of the highway is made of bridges and tunnels designed to smooth the steep cliffs along the way, making it one of the hardest engineering projects in China.

A total of 40,000 LED lights were installed in the tunnels to keep the drivers focused. /Chinanews.com Photo‍

Ready to be rocked

Another problem with roads in the area is ground movement. The highway is located not far away from Wenchuan City, the epicenter of China's worst earthquake in the last decade, which killed nearly 70,000 people on May 12, 2008.

We have a detailed explainer of why this area is frequently jolted.

Transportation is one of the keys for earthquake rescue and the engineers of the new highway made use of China's latest technology to monitor the ground movement.

Road restored after landslide /Chinanews.com Photo

A total of 72 monitor sites were installed along the road, all equipped with Beidou satellite positioning chips.

Any ground movement further than 2.5 millimeters will trigger alerts, according to Huang Bing, CEO of the company that runs the road.

Huang Bing talks with CCTV reporters by the highway. /Screenshot from CCTV

The Ya'an-Kangding highway is part of the national G4218 highway, which is the first of its kind to reach the Tibetans in Sichuan Province. The road is expected to bring faster economic growth and benefit the people.

"I'm very happy with the highway," Yang Tianzhi, an intercity bus driver, told CCTV. "I can say goodbye to the old, cliffy and snowy road now."

The highway is an addition to the existing Sichuan-Tibet railway, offering another option for traveling between Sichuan and Tibet, both in southwest China.

The east section I think is the hardest, the rest on the plateau is just regularly difficult.
The west section is also difficult.

 

[AndrewJin]

Ya'an-Xichang Expressway in winter
Spiral tunnels and bridges never fail to amaze me

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One section of 3000km G5 Beijing-Kunming National Expressway
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Very few expressway could beat G5 Ya'an-Xichang section in terms of beauty and human wisdom

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[AndrewJin]

One of the many expressways opened in December 2017
Guilin, Guangxi Province, Southwest China

 

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86.5% bridges/tunnels!
Wenchuan to Ma'erkang Expressway Documentary

Wenchuan to Ma'erkang expressway is one of three expressways in Sichuan province' Tibetan autonomous region.
86.5% of this expressway is bridges and tunnels,t he highest percentage in the world,
almost twice as much as Ya'an to Xichang expressway.

I was in Ma'erkang 2 years ago, en route from Gongga Mountains to Jiuzhaigou National Park.
At that time, it was still called Ma'erkang County, the capital of Aba Autonomous prefecture.

Highway 317, the northern route of Sichuan-Tibet highway
I took it on my bus from Danba to Ma'erkang

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Ma'erkang-Wenchuan Expressway (under construction)
Wenchuan-Chengdu Expressway (in operation)
Ya'an-Kangding Expressway (partly open)

Photos from online

 

[AndrewJin]

86.5% bridges/tunnels!
Wenchuan to Ma'erkang Expressway Documentary

Wenchuan to Ma'erkang expressway is one of three expressways in Sichuan province' Tibetan autonomous region.
86.5% of this expressway is bridges and tunnels,t he highest percentage in the world,
almost twice as much as Ya'an to Xichang expressway.

I was in Ma'erkang 2 years ago, en route from Gongga Mountains to Jiuzhaigou National Park.
At that time, it was still called Ma'erkang County, the capital of Aba Autonomous prefecture.
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Highway 317, the northern route of Sichuan-Tibet highway
I took it on my bus from Danba to Ma'erkang
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@TaiShang @Kaptaan @Bussard Ramjet @cirr @samsara @Martian2 @Dungeness @ARMalik @DESERT FIGHTER et al

Ma'erkang-Wenchuan Expressway (under construction)
Wenchuan-Chengdu Expressway (in operation)
Ya'an-Kangding Expressway (partly open)
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We have built more than 100k expressways, some are easy, some are hard, some are very very hard.
Now we must face the challenges of very very very very hard.

The new six lane Guiyang - Zunyi Expressway in Guizhou province opened to traffic on 2 January.

China's Expressway Development History:

1. October 31, 1988, the first completed expressway in mainland China. Shanghai Jia Highway has four lanes, a total length of 20.4 km.

2. 1989, the opening of the expressway in mainland China was 271 kilometers.

3. 1994, the total length of expressways opened to traffic in mainland China reached 1603 kilometers.

4.1998, the total mileage of the expressway in mainland China reached 8733 kilometers.

5. In 2000, the opening of the expressway in mainland China reached 16,000 km.

6. In 2001, the mileage of expressways in mainland China reached 19,000 km, ranking No.2 in the world.

7. In 2004, the total mileage of the expressways in mainland China exceeded 34,200 kilometers.

8. In 2007, the total mileage of the expressways in mainland China exceeded 536,00 kilometers.

9. 2013, China's total expressway mileage reached 104,000 km, ranking No.1 in the world.

10. 2017, Chinese expressway length reached 136,000 km.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=232957&page=172

5000km new expressways to open in 2018
2018年我国将新增高速公路通车里程5000公里，新改建国省干线公路1.6万公里，新改建农村公路20万公里，新增通硬化路建制村5000个，新增通客车建制村5000个。新增内河高等级航道达标里程600公里。主要港口集装箱铁水联运量增长15%以上。