The world's longest bridge over sea water has opened in opened to
general traffic on in China's eastern coastal city of Qingdao. Jiaozhou
Bay is located on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula in East
China. It separates Huangdao District from Qingdao City and borders on
two other cities, Jiaozhou and Jiaonan. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, with a
total length of 42.4 kilometres would easily cross the English Channel
and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana. Built in
just four years at a cost of 55.5 billion pounds, the sheer scale of
the bridge reveals the advances made by Chinese engineers in recent
years.