Main Body of Quanzhou Bay Cross-Sea Bridge Completed

A view of the Quanzhou Bay cross-sea bridge in Fujian Province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

The main body of the Quanzhou Bay cross-sea bridge has been completed, a key step in the construction of the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway.

The steel-concrete composite semi-floating cable-stayed bridge with two towers is about 20 kilometers long and has an 8.96-km sea bridge section. Its main bridge is 800 meters and its main span is 400 meters. Each of the towers is about 160 meters high.

The Quanzhou Bay cross-sea bridge is about 20 kilometers long. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

Starting from Fuzhou and terminating in Xiamen and Zhangzhou, East China's Fujian Province, the 277-kilometer Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway has a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour.

Construction of the Quanzhou Bay cross-sea bridge is underway. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

Once operational, the railway is expected to shorten travel time between Xiamen and Fuzhou to within one hour and will promote economic and social development of the city cluster on the western bank of the Taiwan Straits.

As an expansion of the Beijing-Fuzhou high-speed railway, the Fuzhou-Xiamen high-speed railway will enable people in six cities in Fujian to travel to Beijing by high-speed train and will bring  Fujian into the national high-speed railway network.

(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)