Donghai Bridge (
Chinese:
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p ''Dōnghǎi Dàqiáo'',
Wu ''Tonhe Dujiau'' "
East Sea Bridge") is a Chinese bridge counted among the
longest cross-sea bridges in the world. It was completed on December 10, 2005. It has a total length of and connects mainland
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
's
Pudong New Area
Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic cit ...
with the offshore
Yangshan Deep-Water Port in
Zhejiang
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Shengsi County. Most of the bridge is a low-level
viaduct
A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide ...
. There are also
cable-stayed
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern o ...
sections to allow for the passage of large ships, the largest with a span of . Donghai Bridge is part of the
S2 Hulu Expressway.
The bridge has a long and narrow speedway and does not allow vehicles that do not meet the weight requirements.
Projects
On 29 January 2014, Shanghai's urban planning authorities announced that they would build a second bridge combining road and rail to help meet growing transport demands for the
Yangshan Deep-Water Port.
Plans from 2019 show that this second bridge is proposed to connect Shanghai to
Ningbo
Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the Eas ...
via Yangshan port.
See also
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Donghai Bridge Wind Farm
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Port of Shanghai
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Hangzhou Bay Bridge
Hangzhou Bay Bridge () is a long highway bridge with two separate cable-stayed bridge, cable-stayed portions, built across the mouth of Hangzhou Bay in the eastern coastal region of China. It connects the municipalities of Jiaxing and Ningbo in Z ...
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Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge
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List of bridges by length
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List of longest cable-stayed bridge spans
This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main Span (engineering), span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a l ...
References
External links
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Official site in Chinese
Cable-stayed bridges in China
Bridges in Shanghai
Bridges in Zhejiang
Bridges completed in 2005
Yangtze River Delta
Cross-sea bridges in China
2005 establishments in Shanghai
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