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Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao
Bridge opens, integrating
China’s Greater Bay Area
Article and image from Xinhua News Agency
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday and a tunnel facilitates travel that Thirty-five years ago, Wu created
announced the opening of the used to be separated by channels. a sketch of the bridge over the
world's longest cross-sea bridge, channel and made it a proposal
which connects the mainland INTEGRATION to the then Hong Kong British
province of Guangdong with the authorities, but was ignored.
country's two special administrative The mega-bridge has a 6.7-km
regions, Hong Kong and Macao. underwater tunnel. It links the After Hong Kong returned to the
three economic heavy-weights that motherland in 1997, entrepreneurs
Praising builders of the bridge each have different social systems, in Hong Kong brought up the
for breaking a number of world economic structures and even proposal again, hoping to integrate
records, Xi said they demonstrate languages. development with the mainland.
the nation's spirit of striving to
overcome any difficulties, the With the swift journeys, the "Without the bridge, people from
national strength, the innovative economic belt of the Guangdong- Hong Kong facing Zhuhai across the
ability, and the aspiration to be the Hong Kong-Macao Greater Lingding Channel had to detour via
world's best. Bay Area has taken shape and several cities including Shenzhen
become an economic circle that and Dongguan in the bay area to
The bridge should not only be can be completed in an hour, reach Zhuhai and other cities in the
structurally sound but also well uniting Hong Kong's financial western part of Guangdong," Wu
managed, in a bid to contribute to services, Guangdong's industrial said.
the development of the Guangdong- manufacturing and Macao's
Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay entertainment industry. "The bridge construction is a
Area, he said. practice of the Chinese policy of
"A bridge spanning over the 'One Country, Two Systems,' as a
The Y-shaped construction spans bay used to be my wild fancy, to great deal of coordinations were
over the Lingding Channel in south make Hong Kong fully exert its carried out under the three different
China meandering for 55 km. Built commercial radiating potential," legal and management systems,"
with an investment of 126.9 billion said Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, a said Ge Changwei, head of the
yuan (about 18.3 billion U.S. dollars), Hong Kong businessman. Guangdong Provincial Commission
the gigantic project consisting of a of Development and Reform.
series of bridges, artificial islands
8 AmCham South China
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao
Bridge opens, integrating
China’s Greater Bay Area
Article and image from Xinhua News Agency
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday and a tunnel facilitates travel that Thirty-five years ago, Wu created
announced the opening of the used to be separated by channels. a sketch of the bridge over the
world's longest cross-sea bridge, channel and made it a proposal
which connects the mainland INTEGRATION to the then Hong Kong British
province of Guangdong with the authorities, but was ignored.
country's two special administrative The mega-bridge has a 6.7-km
regions, Hong Kong and Macao. underwater tunnel. It links the After Hong Kong returned to the
three economic heavy-weights that motherland in 1997, entrepreneurs
Praising builders of the bridge each have different social systems, in Hong Kong brought up the
for breaking a number of world economic structures and even proposal again, hoping to integrate
records, Xi said they demonstrate languages. development with the mainland.
the nation's spirit of striving to
overcome any difficulties, the With the swift journeys, the "Without the bridge, people from
national strength, the innovative economic belt of the Guangdong- Hong Kong facing Zhuhai across the
ability, and the aspiration to be the Hong Kong-Macao Greater Lingding Channel had to detour via
world's best. Bay Area has taken shape and several cities including Shenzhen
become an economic circle that and Dongguan in the bay area to
The bridge should not only be can be completed in an hour, reach Zhuhai and other cities in the
structurally sound but also well uniting Hong Kong's financial western part of Guangdong," Wu
managed, in a bid to contribute to services, Guangdong's industrial said.
the development of the Guangdong- manufacturing and Macao's
Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay entertainment industry. "The bridge construction is a
Area, he said. practice of the Chinese policy of
"A bridge spanning over the 'One Country, Two Systems,' as a
The Y-shaped construction spans bay used to be my wild fancy, to great deal of coordinations were
over the Lingding Channel in south make Hong Kong fully exert its carried out under the three different
China meandering for 55 km. Built commercial radiating potential," legal and management systems,"
with an investment of 126.9 billion said Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, a said Ge Changwei, head of the
yuan (about 18.3 billion U.S. dollars), Hong Kong businessman. Guangdong Provincial Commission
the gigantic project consisting of a of Development and Reform.
series of bridges, artificial islands
8 AmCham South China
