Barely 18 months after finishing work on the longest water-spanning bridge in the world – a 36km behemoth stretching across Hangzhou Bay – in 2009 China launched construction on another, a Y-shaped link between Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland that would seize its title comfortably.
B arely 18 months after finishing work on the longest water-spanning bridge in the world – a 36km behemoth stretching across Hangzhou Bay – in 2009 China launched construction on another, a Y-shaped link between Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland that would seize its title comfortably.
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