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China plans sea link
00:00 09 Jun 1994
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China is planning to bridge a 57km stretch of sea across the Bohai
Channel, linking the Shandong and Liaoning peninsulas - the
œ4.6 billion project would be the biggest such undertaking in
the world.
Involving a series of seven bridges and a tunnel, the crossing would take ten years to complete.
While feasibility studies have begun, they will take several years. If the project does get off the ground, work is unlikely to start until the next century. Meanwhile a train ferry is planned between the two ports of Dalian, in Liaoning and Yantai, in Shandong.
The aim of the project is to boost the economic prosperity of what is known as the Bohai rim. The 680,000km Bohai rim area was declared an independent economic zone in 1992 and consists of Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and Liaoning provinces and the cities of Beijing and Tianjin.
Involving a series of seven bridges and a tunnel, the crossing would take ten years to complete.
While feasibility studies have begun, they will take several years. If the project does get off the ground, work is unlikely to start until the next century. Meanwhile a train ferry is planned between the two ports of Dalian, in Liaoning and Yantai, in Shandong.
The aim of the project is to boost the economic prosperity of what is known as the Bohai rim. The 680,000km Bohai rim area was declared an independent economic zone in 1992 and consists of Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and Liaoning provinces and the cities of Beijing and Tianjin.
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