A group tour organized early this month under the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework has brought our media practitioners from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and China to major development projects in Guangdong, China.
The trip was part of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Media Summit hosted by People’s Daily.
The ASEAN and Chinese journalists were amazed by all of these infrastructure projects with some boasting world-class details.
We began with visiting Lingdingyang Bridge on July 2. The bridge is an important control project of Shenzhen-Zhongshen link in Zhuhai City, China.
Lingdingyang bridge has a total length of 2,826 m. Its main span is 1,666m, which is the world’s largest span offshore suspension bridge. The bridge has a deck height of 91 m, making it the world’s tallest mid-sea bridge. The main tower adopts a portal structure, with the height of 270 m, making it the world’s tallest mid-sea bridge tower. The anchor weighs 1.7 million tons and is the world’s largest anchor in the ocean.
We then stopped at Shenzhen-Zhongshan bridge. This bridge connects Shenzhen city and Zhongshan city in Guangdong province. It is a world-class cluster project of bridges, “islands tunnels and underwater connectivity”, and a core transportation hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay area. The 7-billion-USD bridge is expected to be put into public use in 2024.
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay area includes two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, as well as nine Pearl River Delta cities in Guangdong province, namely Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing.
It will be built into a dynamic world-class city cluster, an international scientific and technological innovation center with global influence, an important support for the construction of “Belt and Road”, a demonstration area for in-depth cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macao, and high quality life circle suitable for living, working and traveling.
Our last stop of the trip was China Communications Construction Group (CCCC). The corporate is mainly engaged in the investment, design, construction and operation of transportation infrastructure such as highway, waterway, railway and airport.
CCCC has a strong ability of independent innovation and created a number of “world top” projects. It not only has the whole industry chain integration service ability in the field of Transport up-gradation and city regeneration, but also has unique advantages in internationalization, river lake sea governance and so on.
With over 30 years of experience in the Lancang-Mekong market, CCCC has been fully involved in the construction of the economic development belt in the area especially after the introduction of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism. CCCC has implemented over 13 billion USD of high-quality infrastructure projects with Chinese technology and Chinese solutions, creating a series of landmark projects served as “Bridge liking hearts”, “Road to wealth”, “Port for development”, “City of happiness”, and “Clean power”. These projects have brought a better living experience to the local people.
Source: Lao News Agency