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The Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link 12-29-20

屯門至赤鱲角連接路

The Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link (Chinese: 屯門至赤鱲角連接路, abbreviated as TM–CLKL) is a road project in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It comprises two elements: the “Northern Connection” and the “Southern Connection”. The Northern Connection comprises of an undersea tunnel crossing the Urmston Road, linking Tuen Mun to the “Boundary Crossing Facilities” (BCF), an artificial peninsula connected to Hong Kong International Airport. The Southern Connection, officially named Shun Long Road (Chinese: 順朗路), comprises viaducts linking the BCF to North Lantau Highway on Lantau Island.

The construction of the link has helped facilitate travel between the Northwest New Territories (Tuen Mun and Yuen Long Districts) and the Hong Kong International Airport and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (Hong Kong Port).

The tunnel portion is a two-lane dual carriageway approximately 5 kilometres long. The dual sub-sea tunnels were bored up to 55 metres below sea level using the Tuen Mun – Chek Lap Kok TBM, the world’s largest tunnel boring machine.

Originally scheduled for opening in 2018, completion of the link had been delayed for two years. It opened to traffic on 27 December 2020.

A34 at Hung Tsui Kiu on Castle Peak Road in Yuen Long. The bus is packed with seniors test-running the route.
Near Butterfly Bay in Tuen Mun
Crossover between the bus stations at the Interchange
On the other side of the Interchange
To Tung Chung city centre
To the Airport
To the “Boundary Crossing Facilities” (BCF)
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Pingtan strait bridge

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12-26-20 China’s first combined highway and railway cross-sea bridge, the Pingtan strait bridge, comes into use on Sat, after 7 years of construction overcoming obstacles including weather, hydrology and geology, ending the lack of railways on Pingtan island in E China’s Fujian Province.

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Argentina and China signs railway contract

12-11-20 China Railway Construction Corporation and the Ministry of Transport of Argentina on Fri signed a contract worth $2.6 billion to improve the General San Martin Cargo Railway, the largest railway project signed by a Chinese company in Latin America.

The line is one of the South American country’s three main cargo railways, connecting western productive provinces with the eastern agricultural export region.

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez presided over the signing of the 2.6 billion-U.S. dollar contract, the biggest contract in a series of railway agreements signed Friday with Chinese companies.

Under the contract, the CRCC will provide the engineering, technology and equipment.

The agreement seeks to rehabilitate the railway corridors of the San Martin line, improve its infrastructure to boost cargo capacity from 3 million to 9 million tons, and increase train operational speed from 40 to 90 km per hour, according to the president’s office.

The project will renovate 1,813 km of the railway line, benefiting the provinces of Buenos Aires (center-east), Santa Fe (center), San Luis (west), Cordoba (center) and Mendoza (west), and eventually directly generate some 16,830 jobs.

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Egypt and China Building for the Future

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  • Central Business District (CBD) of the country’s New Administrative Capital
  • Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (SETC-Zone)
  • electric vehicle sector
  • a light rail network connecting Cairo with surrounding districts
  • Ain Sokhna refinery project
  • high-speed electric railway between Ain Sokhna and El Alamein
  • container terminal inside the Abu Qir Naval Base, on the central Mediterranean coast.
  • three solar power stations at the Benban Solar Energy Park in the southern governorate of Aswan
  • an industrial complex for the production of solar panels
  • African hub for manufacturing a Covid-19 vaccine. 12-11-20 Egypt is negotiating with relevant Chinese companies for the local mass production of China’s new coronavirus vaccine, Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed . Egypt is negotiating financially over the cost of obtaining a production license.
  • national roads project
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Chinese firms to build largest cross-sea cable-stayed bridge in Latin America

A joint venture of China Railway 20th Bureau Group Co and China Communications Construction Co signed a contract to build a cross-sea cable-stayed bridge in Salvador with the Brazilian state of Bahia on Thursday, meaning the construction of the largest such bridge in Latin America will kick off.

Located in Salvador, the capital of Bahia state in Brazil, the Salvador Bridge is designed to be 46.8 kilometers long.

One of the highlights of the bridge will be the 12.4-kilometer cross-sea section, with the main tower topping up at 205 meters and a maximum span of 450 meters. 

The depth of water in the area reaches 60 meters. 

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China opens world’s longest cross-sea road-rail bridge

10月1日，平潭海峡公铁两用大桥公路面试通车，这是我国首座跨海公铁两用桥、世界最长跨海峡公铁两用大桥，大桥由中国中铁大桥院设计、中国中铁大桥局承建。

　　据介绍，该段公路是我国高速公路网京台线重要组成部分，也是第二条进出平潭岛的重要通道，通车后福州至平潭的用时将缩短半小时，形成一小时通勤圈。
据悉，平潭海峡公铁两用大桥全长16.34公里，起于福州市长乐区松下镇，经人屿岛、长屿岛、小练岛、大练岛，依次跨越元洪航道、鼓屿门水道、大小练岛水道、北东口水道，在苏澳镇上平潭岛。“大桥上层设计为时速100公里的六车道高速公路，下层设计为时速200公里的双线I级铁路。

　　大桥桥址所在处是世界上著名的三大风暴海域之一，风大、浪高、流急、岩硬，波浪力是长江等内河的10倍以上，全年7级以上大风超过200天，有效作业时间不超过120天。”中国中铁大桥院党委书记刘自明介绍，恶劣的环境让这里一度被称为“建桥禁区”。

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China’s largest patrol vessel launched in Guangdong

China’s largest patrol vessel, Haixun 09, was undocked on Tuesday in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. The patrol vessel is 165 meters long, 20.6 meters wide and 9.5 meters deep. It has a displacement of 10,700 metric tons. The vessel has a helicopter landing pad and a data center equipped with a set of satellite communication systems, including China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System. Its construction started in May 2019. The vessel is expected to be put into service in 2021 in the areas of law enforcement, emergency coordination and command and pollution prevention.