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First Yangtze River Tunnel Opens to Traffic on Dec 28, 2008 in Wuhan, Hubei Province

Updated: 2020-12-28

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The first Yangtze River tunnel opens to traffic on Dec 28, 2008 in Wuhan Hubei Province. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

First Yangtze River tunnel opens to traffic on Dec 28, 2008 in Wuhan, Hubei Province

The first Yangtze River tunnel opened to traffic in Wuhan, Hubei Province on Dec 28, 2008. Since then, a cross-river pattern of over-water, on-water and underwater was formed.

The first to begin construction and the earliest to open, the tunnel was the cradle of many shield design and engineering skills which proved valuable in future cross-river tunnel projects.

China establishes first cross-regional modern salt enterprise integrating production and marketing operations on Dec 28, 2016

China salt JingJinJi salt Industry Co., LTD., the first cross-regional modern salt enterprise to integrate production and marketing operations in China, was launched on Dec 28, 2016.

A subsidiary of China National Salt Industry Corporation, the new enterprise helped the parent company promote structural and mechanism reform, integrate resources and optimize a secure system of salt production.

World's first one million kW ultra-supercritical air cooling unit starts service on Dec 28, 2010

The world's first one million kW ultra-supercritical air cooling unit, invested and built by China Huadian Corporation Ltd. (CHD), went into operation on Dec 28, 2010.

The owner of the unit is CHD's subsidiary in Lingwu, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, which has a total installed capacity of 3.32 million kW.

The largest thermal power plant in northwestern China, the facility is also a main power support of the country's West-to-East Electricity Transmission project.

The operation of the unit indicates China had mastered the core technology required to manufacture its own air cooling units.



(Executive editor: Zhang Tianyuan)

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