World’s Longest Sea Bridge
This amazing structure joins Hong Kong to Macau, so now you have a choice – take the Ferry or take a leisurely drive. Stretching more than 55km 34 miles or 55km, yes it’s very long! The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge spans the Pearl River Delta and is an unparalleled engineering feat. From end to end, including its two link roads, the bridge is about 20 times the length of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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Macau Day Tour with Lunch
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HZMB), officially the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. It is both the longest sea crossing[5][6] and the longest open-sea fixed link on earth. The HZMB spans the Lingding and Jiuzhou channels, connecting Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai—three major cities on the Pearl River Delta.[7][8]
The HZM Bridge was designed to last for 120 years and cost 127 billion yuan (US$18.8 billion) to build.[2] The cost of constructing the Main Bridge was estimated at 51.1 billion yuan (US$7.56 billion) funded by bank loans and shared among the governments of mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.[9]
Originally set to be opened to traffic in late 2016,[10][11][12] the structure was completed on 6 February 2018[1] and journalists were subsequently taken for a ride over the bridge.[13][14] On 24 October 2018, the HZMB was opened to the public after its inauguration a day earlier by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (China’s paramount leader)
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