Photo by Luo Yunfei, China News Service, Haikou, March 18. China's first cross-sea bridge across the seismic fault, the Hainan Haiwen Bridge, opened to traffic on the morning of the 18th, shortening the journey from Haikou City to Puqian Town, a famous overseas Chinese hometown,

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Photo by Luo Yunfei, China News Service, Haikou, March 18. China's first cross-sea bridge across the seismic fault, the Hainan Haiwen Bridge, opened to traffic on the morning of the 18th, shortening the journey from Haikou City to Puqian Town, a famous overseas Chinese hometown,  - DayDayNews

The picture shows the Haiwen Bridge. Photo by Luo Yunfei

China News Service Haikou, March 18 (Reporter Hong Jianpeng) China's first sea-crossing bridge across earthquake-active faults - Hainan Haiwen Bridge 18 opened to traffic on the morning of the 18th, shortening the journey from Haikou City to the famous overseas Chinese hometown Wenchang Puqian Town from one and a half hours to twenty minutes. The Haiwen Bridge is currently the bridge with the highest crack and the largest basic wind speed in seismic protection in China, breaking through the technical difficulties of building super-large bridges in the extreme earthquake zone of and across the earthquake fault zone.

Haiwen Bridge started construction in 2015. The total length of the project route is 5.597 kilometers, the two-way six-lane first-class highway standard, the design speed is 80 kilometers per hour, the standard width of the bridge is 32 meters, and the total investment is 2.67 billion yuan.

Photo by Luo Yunfei, China News Service, Haikou, March 18. China's first cross-sea bridge across the seismic fault, the Hainan Haiwen Bridge, opened to traffic on the morning of the 18th, shortening the journey from Haikou City to Puqian Town, a famous overseas Chinese hometown,  - DayDayNews

The picture shows the Hainan Provincial Vice Governor Wang Road (middle) announced to be opened to traffic. Photo by Hong Jianpeng

Lin Dong, Director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Transportation, said at the opening ceremony that the Haiwen Bridge spans Puqian Bay, connects to the Wenchang Coastal Tourism Highway in the east, and to the main area of ​​Jiangdong Avenue in Haikou in the west. It is a traffic control project to realize the integration of "Haichengwen". The opening of the bridge solved the traffic bottleneck problem in the "Haichengwen" area and created traffic conditions for the integration of Wenchang, a hometown of overseas Chinese, to the half-hour economic circle of Haikou. The completion of the Haiwen Bridge will also be conducive to the development of tourism resources in northern Qiong and the improvement of Hainan's transportation and road network structure.

Deng Shaodong, a 72-year-old shop predecessor, specially returned to Haikou from Guangzhou to participate in the opening ceremony of the Haiwen Bridge. He recalled that when he was a child, he had to take a boat from front of the shop to Haikou, which took several hours. "If we encounter low tide, we have to get off the boat and pass through the mudflats, which is very hard."

Photo by Luo Yunfei, China News Service, Haikou, March 18. China's first cross-sea bridge across the seismic fault, the Hainan Haiwen Bridge, opened to traffic on the morning of the 18th, shortening the journey from Haikou City to Puqian Town, a famous overseas Chinese hometown,  - DayDayNews

The picture shows Lin Dong, director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Transportation, delivered a speech. Photo by Hong Jianpeng

"By the 1980s, it took us more than 3 hours to take a bus from front to Haikou. With the opening of the expressway, the time was shortened to more than 1 hour. After the opening of the Haiwen Bridge, the time was even shorter, fulfilling one of the dreams of our predecessors." Deng Shaodong said.

Lu Xiaoyu, director of Hainan Provincial Transportation Engineering Construction Bureau, introduced that the Haiwen Bridge will carry out ecological and environmental protection requirements throughout the entire project construction process, reasonably arrange the construction period, and avoid the peak period of bird migration; the construction equipment will be equipped with shock-absorbing bases to reduce the impact of noise on the ecological environment; low-short lighting facilities will be used to reduce interference to bird biological navigation. (End)

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