Two sections of the Anhai Bay Grand Bridge, the world's first ballastless track cross-sea cable-stayed bridge, were joined together on April 6.
A key section of China's first cross-sea high-speed railway - the Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway - it is the latest of its kind to be completed. Two earlier examples are the Quanzhou Bay and Meizhou Bay cross-sea bridges.
Two sections of the Anhai Bay Grand Bridge, a key section of Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway in East China's Fujian Province, are joined together on April 6. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
With a total length of 277 kilometers, the Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway is a main sea-crossing component of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network.
Designed with a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the cross-sea bridge has the highest speed in the world.
(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)
