From north to south, despite the economic slowdown, China continues to astonish with its technical achievements. Thursday, the highest bridge in the world was opened to the public simultaneously with the inauguration of two new lines of super fast trains.
The bridge is 565 meters high and 1.34km long and connects the city with provicën Xuanëei Shuicheng. Travel to the respective residents yesterday went 4 hours, already cut by three such.
The bridge cost $ 140 million and is part of a highway linking Hangzhou to Ruili. Simultaneously with the opening of the bridge, China completed two new lines of high-speed railway linking southwestern city of Kunming to Shanghai and Guanzhou in the country's east coast.
These railways are part of an ambitious program that envisages the construction of six other such lines that criss-crossed the country fall. The plan is that the Chinese high-speed train network extends to 309 thousand km by 2020, joining 150 thousand km rail in use currently.
The new railway linking Shanghai Kunmingun with is the longest high-speed train in China from east to west. It is over 2252 km and can be crossed in 11 hours, less than half the time of previous travel.
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