Pudong
Shanghai
China
Saturday, October 31, 2009

The new Bridge Tunnel connecting the Pudong district of Shanghai to Chongming Island opened to traffic today


Features :-

• The 25.5-kilometer project, with a cost of 12.6 billion yuan (US$1.84 billion), includes a 8.9-kilometer tunnel that boasts the world's largest diameter of its kind, according to Huang Rong, director of the Shanghai municipal committee of urban-rural construction and communications

• Chongming Island is the third largest island in China, after Taiwan and Hainan

• Chongming was before the Bridge – Tunnel opening only accessible by ferry

• The island is undeveloped, and it is mainly rural area, where people grow all kinds of fruits and food

• Drive on the island is wonderful - there are not many cars on the island, and the roads are very beautiful with trees and rivers on both side

• That is all about to change as the island develops and as thousands of vehicles drive onto the island

• The island takes up one sixth of Shanghai's territory and is home to five percent of the city's population

• But its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is just one seventieth of Shanghai's average

• It will take about only 20 minutes' drive from the booming Pudong New District of Shanghai to the 1,267-square-kilometer Chongming Island

• Construction of the Chongming Bridge-Tunnel cost: 12.3 billion Yuan (US $1.6 billion)

"After the bridge opens to traffic, Chongming will embrace a historical opportunity of development," said the excited Peng Chenlei, Communist Party chief of Chongming.

Address and Contact Data

Chongming Island

Chongming County
China

http://www.cmx.gov.cn/gb/node2/node21/index.html