Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link Opens, Transforming Bay Area Transportation
On July 1st, IT Home reported that according to the Shenzhen News Network, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, known as the undersea Great Wall, officially opened on the 30th (yesterday), and a fleet of 100 domestic high-end cars such as BYD Yangwang U8/U9 and Hongmeng Zhixing Wenjie M7/M9 drove into the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link.
BYD organized a fleet of 100 Yangwang U8/U9 in advance, hoping to be among the first to drive on the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link and witness the grandeur of this world-class project. In addition, many Wenjie M9 and M7 models also formed the Hongmeng Zhixing Wenjie Fleet, attracting a lot of attention from the onsite citizens.
As the only direct road connection channel between the Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou and Zhuhai-Zhongshan-Jiangmen city clusters, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link is the key horizontal line of the A-shaped transportation network skeleton at the Pearl River Estuary. After the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, the driving time between Shenzhen and Zhongshan is reduced from two hours to less than half an hour. In the future, it will only take 15 minutes from Guangzhou Nansha to Zhongshan, and the driving time from Zhuhai and Jiangmen to Shenzhen is reduced from more than 2 hours to less than 1 hour, creating a new pattern for the transportation development of the Greater Bay Area.
IT Home found out that the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link has gone through 7 years of construction, including the world's largest cross-span all-offshore steel box girder suspension bridge with a main span of 1,666 meters, and the world's first two-way eight-lane steel shell concrete immersed tube tunnel with a length of 6.8 kilometers. It is one of the current跨海集群工程 with the highest comprehensive construction difficulty in the world and is known as the undersea Great Wall.
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The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link officially opens, and the driving time between Shenzhen and Zhongshan is reduced to less than half an hour.