标题: 中国超级工程: NYT [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-13-2015 11:22 标题: 中国超级工程: NYT David Barboza, 中国超级工程. 纽约时报中文网, Jan 13, 2014
cn.nytimes.com/china/20150113/c13china/
, which is translated from
David Barboza, In China, Projects to Make Great Wall Feel Small. New York Times, Jan 13, 2014 (front page).
“In November [2014], the government said its freight rail link between eastern China and Spain had opened, allowing factory goods to reach Spain in just over 20 days. It is now the world’s longest rail journey, far surpassing the route of the famed Trans-Siberian Railway.
Note:
(a) " The plan here seems far-fetched — a $36 billion tunnel that would run twice the length of the one under the English Channel, and bore deep into one of Asia’s active earthquake zones. When completed, it would be the world’s longest underwater tunnel, creating a rail link between two northern port cities. * * * And here in Dalian, a city of six million in the northeast, the proposed underwater rail tunnel to Yantai"
The name of the tunnel is not settled yet.
(b) The reports in the cm.mytimes.com does not include a map (with legend) and a photo galleey, that appears in print and nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/busin ... ll-feel-small-.html
Of course, if you are familiawith these projects, you need not go to nytimes.com.
* legend to photo 1: "The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, which cost $2.3 billion, is the world's longest sea-crossing bridge."
"Guinness World Records lists the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as the world's 'longest bridge over water (aggregate length)' at 41.58 km (25.84 mi)." Wikipedia under this title
* legend o photo 3: “The addition of Yangshan Deepwater Port 洋山深水港, which is built 20 miles out to sea, makes the Shanghai system the world's largest container shipping port."
list of world's busiest container ports
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_busiest_container_ports
(Up to and including 2009, Singapore was the champion)
* legend to photo 4: New Century Global Center 新世纪环球中心 in Chengdu (completed in 2013)