Work is now underway on a key new highway link in China's Guangdong Province.
February 23, 2012
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Work is now underway on a key new highway link in China's Guangdong Province. Once complete, the new Chaozhou-Huizhou Expressway will be 243km long. The project is expected to cost in the order of US$4.47 billion to complete.
Zhejiang, Hunan and Hubei provinces in China are all planning huge highway development programmes. In all the work will cost over US$ billion. One of the key projects is for a stretch of the Tianjin-Shijiazhuang Expressway, which is due for completion at the end of 2019.
Construction work on a major highway project in Pakistan linking Peshawar with Karachi is now underway. Building the section from Sukkur to Multan is expected to take 36 months. Once complete, the six-lane highway will stretch 392km in length. In all the Peshawar-Karachi highway will be some 1,152km long and will also pass through Lahore. Funding worth US$2.89 billion is being provided by the Export-Import Bank of China with the construction work being carried out by China State Construction Engineering Cor
The Chinese authorities have announced plans to construct the world’s longest undersea tunnel. Measuring a colossal 123km long, the tunnel route runs under the Bohai Sea and is intended to connect Dalian in Liaoning Province with Yantai in Shandong Province. The tunnel was first proposed in the mid-1990s when it was expected to cost in the region of US$10.3 billion to build but the project was shelved due to the enormous construction challenges it posed. However tunnelling technology has moved on and the Ch
