China to construct world’s longest cable-stayed highway in Shanghai

Construction of the world’s longest cable-stayed highway and railway bridge will get underway in eastern China at the end of this month, the authorities say.

The bridge, which will link Shanghai — China’s biggest city and transport hub, with Nantong in Jiangsu Province, is 11 kilometres long with a five-km span across the Yangtze River.

Construction will take more than five years, the transportation authority of Jiangsu said Thursday.

The project is expected to ease traffic pressure in Shanghai, a conurbation of some 24 million inhabitants, and Jiangsu, which is china’s most densely populated province, and contribute to the economic development of the Yangtze River Delta and Shanghai free trade zone.