China News Service, Zhoushan, December 29 (Xi Jinyan) In late winter, the vast East China Sea, the sea and the sky are the same color, only a cross-sea bridge, such as the Changhong lying wave, like dragons out of the water, turns the blue waves into a thoroughfare.
On December 29, after 6 years of construction, the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Main Passage Project was opened to traffic.
Zhoudai Bridge is connected with Yushan Bridge, Fuchimen Bridge and the original Zhoushan Sea Crossing Bridge. The total construction mileage has reached 83 kilometers, spanning 8 islands and has 8 bridges, making it the longest island-linked highway in China. Highways and the largest cross-sea bridge group.
On this day, hundreds of thousands of Daishan people have been looking forward to it for a long time.
"Post-90s" Daishan Islander Ren Hongbin rushed to line up early in the morning and became the first car owner to sail on the Zhoudai Bridge. "In the past, we had to rely on ferry boats to get out of the island. It would be very inconvenient for us to stop sailing when we encountered strong winds and waves. You can drive to Ningbo within an hour, and the days are even more promising."
The opening of the Zhoudai Bridge ended the history of Daishan County’s unreachable expressway and lonely overseas, and also opened up new space for local island tourism and specialty industries.
According to reports, the main passage of Ningbo Zhoushan Port is designed according to the two-way 4-lane expressway standard, with a design speed of 100 km/h. The construction is led by Zhejiang Transportation Group and started in March 2016.
Among them, Yushan Bridge and Fuchimen Bridge were completed in December 2018 and September 2019 respectively.
Zhoudai Bridge, the main channel project of Ningbo Zhoushan Port.
Photo by Wang Gang
From being blocked by the sea to being thriving by the sea, the change in traffic is undoubtedly the key to turning stones into gold.
Zhejiang Free Trade Zone is the only free trade zone in the country featuring the construction of the entire oil and gas industry chain, and the green petrochemical base on Yushan Island is one of the landmark projects.
Five years ago, Yushan Island was still unknown, with a resident population of only more than 500 people.
The construction of transportation infrastructure such as Yushan Bridge and Zhoudai Bridge has helped boost the rise of the green petrochemical industry base.
At present, Yushan mainly develops the integration of petrochemical refining, which is to process crude oil into refined oil and the most basic chemical materials, and these materials can be used as raw materials for many enterprises in Jinshan District, Shanghai.
The Daishan Economic Development Zone, not far from the Zhoudai Bridge Shuanghe Exit, is seizing the opportunity of the bridge era.
"The high-end petrochemical circular economy industrial park project introduced by the development zone last year is under intense construction. The industrial park will build an important petrochemical equipment industrial chain base in the country. At present, more than 10 leading supporting enterprises in the industry have been determined to settle." Daishan Economic Development The relevant person in charge of the district said.
Once there were thousands of waves in the sea, and dared to build thousands of miles of rivers and bridges.
The Chinese sea-crossing bridges have now become one of the symbols of China's new era.
It is reported that the total amount of concrete required for the construction of the Ningbo Zhoushan Port’s main passage project exceeds 2 million cubic meters and the total amount of steel exceeds 800,000 tons, ranking first in the scale of offshore transportation projects under construction.
In addition, the seemingly calm ocean hides turbulent waves, and the special construction environment makes project construction even more difficult.
People in Daishan celebrated the opening of the bridge to traffic.
Photo by Xi Jinyan
"It is located in a high wind speed belt along the coast of Zhejiang, where typhoons and monsoons are frequent. The surrounding navigation area is complicated, there are many submarine pipelines, and several projects are under construction at the same time. The average daily number of ships is nearly 200 during the peak period." Zhejiang Communications Group's main channel construction command According to Wu Boming, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Ministry, the assembly construction mode of "factory prefabrication, shore assembly, and offshore hoisting" makes "impossible" "possible."
"The value of the bridge lies in its bearing, and the value of people lies in its responsibility." Wu Boming introduced that the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Main Passage Project has made many breakthroughs in key technologies, key equipment, and key materials. It is the first cross-sea bridge in my country to apply the full Beidou survey technology. project.
The main channel of Ningbo Zhoushan Port is also a major strategic island liaison project in the Yangtze River Delta region, creating conditions for Zhoushan to become a maritime transportation hub and accelerate its integration into the Yangtze River Delta.
In the future, the main channel will continue to extend to the north, via Yangshan and other islands, connecting with the planned Second East China Sea Bridge, directly to Shanghai, forming the Shanghai-Zhou-Yong Grand Channel.
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