Big In China: World’s Longest Sea Bridge And Biggest Building
BANISH any arcane and stereotypical ideas you have of the Chinese being less tall, less big then Westerners.
Everything in China is big, massive, even.
The country has just opened the “world’s longest sea bridge”, the 36-kilometre (22-mile) Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge connects Jiaxing city near Shanghai to the port city of Ningbo in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
China is home to the world’s largest shopping mall (the seven-million-square-foot South China Mall); the largest hydroelectric dam (the Three Gorges project); and the highest railroad (5,000 meters above sea level).
In Beijing there’s the world’s biggest concert hall, the National Center for the Performing Arts, aka The Egg, a venue twice as big as the Kennedy Center in Washington.
And the new Terminal 3 at the airport in Beijing is twice the size of the Pentagon.
It is the world’s largest building.
Now if China could just produce a really long car we would be really impressed at just how non-small it is…
May 1st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Truly, a ‘Blidge too far’
Ok Ok, I’ll get my coat
May 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I’ve been on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (bridge runs miles into bay, drops sharply into deep tunnel, runs long miles beneath the water’s bed then rises sharply to become a bridge again in the middle of the bay and runs for more miles, drops sharply once more to tunnel, more miles underground and rises again to become bridge once more for a few more miles to land). Chesapeake Bay is the busiest shipping bay in the world and the shipping traffic is dense and heavy-duty and the Bridge-Tunnel provides clear and deep shipping channels for the sea-traffic while whisking the road traffic across the bay in the most impressive way. That middle section of elevated road bridge rising from under the waves is almost surreal. Engineering can be amazing!
Just wannad to share that withya.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 am
I think you made a mistake…..the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge is the world’s longest bridge which is in Louisiana, United States, not China. Perhaps you meant the new The Hangzhou Bay Bridge in Hangzhou, China? It’s the world’s longest sea-spanning bridge, still short of the world record for bridges in general.