Excerpts Chinese Affairs
Again in terms of competitiveness, what about the speed of construction of major public works? China has completed construction of the world's longest bridge over a stretch of sea. It dell'Hangzhou Bay Bridge, a work of 36 km through the East China Sea.
The bridge of concrete and steel beats by far all other such as the one that connects Bahrain to Saudi Arabia is only 25 kilometers and could join the UK to France across the English Channel. It cost about 1.5 billion, covering to 29 percent by private capital.
Its structure is made to withstand the typhoons that often hit that stretch of beach south of Shanghai, as well as subsidence of the land. For the construction This is one of the most ambitious of China took three years of work.
(Need a consultant for the bridge over the Strait of Messina?)
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