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Yes, we broke our own record suckers!

Not content with what was already the world's longest sea bridge, Donghai Bridge, Shanghai's built yet another bridge, the 36-km long Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which starts at Jiaxing, near Shanghai, and ends at Cixi, about 70 kilometers from Ningbo in... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Jun 27 2007

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27 Jan 08 visit Donghai Bridge of China - Longest bridge in Asia  »  YouTube videoDonghai Bridge has a total length of 32.5 km,located near Shanghai, is the longest sea crossing bridge in the world and the longest bridge in Asia.
27 Jun 07 visit World's longest sea bridge connects Shanghai to Ningbo  »  Danwei Image from XinhuaXinhua reports that the two halves of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge that will connect Shanghai to Ningbo were linked yesterday after more than three years of construction. According to Xinhua, the bridge has the world's longest cross-sea...
04 Apr 08 visit Getting Around: Bridge to Ningbo, folding bikes, floods and construction  »  Shanghaiist A summary of some of the Shanghai public-transportation-related stories making the news lately:The longest ocean-crossing bridge in the world is set to open near Shanghai on May 1. According to the Shanghai Daily, "the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which starts...
30 Mar 08 visit Longest bridge  »  Shanghai Daily THE world's longest sea bridge opens to traffic on May 1. The 36-kilometer bridge, over Hangzhou Bay near Shanghai, is a cable-stayed structure which was built at a cost of 11.8 billion yuan (US$1.64 billion).
01 Apr 08 visit World's longest sea bridge to open in May  »  People's Daily The 36-km-long Hangzhou Bay sea bridge linking Shanghai to Ningbo in Zhejiang province would open to traffic on May 1, the Ningbo government said in Beijing on Friday. By cutting the distance between the two port cities by 120 km and tra ...
01 May 08 visit China's newest bridge is also world's longest  »  Shanghai Daily CHINA opened the world's longest cross-sea bridge yesterday afternoon, linking Shanghai with the booming port city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. A ceremony in the middle of the 36-kilometer cable-stay bridge,...

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