108 Giant Chinese
Infrastructure Projects That Are Reshaping The World
資料提供者：Sidddney Chen
5 July 2013
Very informative for the interested.
The last project is estimated at $1
trillion, just read on..
There's an old Chinese saying that goes: If
you want to be rich, you must first build roads.
And, boy, have they built some roads: In the past year, we've seen the
world's longest sea bridge, the world's longest gas pipeline and a high-speed
railway that's left everyone else in the dust literally.
The resultant infrastructure push is incredible. A list of 108 super
projects is floating around Chinese message boards and we picked out the 45
coolest ones to showcase here.
From highways spanning the continent, to the largest wind power base in
the world, to a modern Silk Road that links Europe and India, to new cities in
the desert, China is showing what it really means to do big things.
$176
MILLION: Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory conducts China's major
scientific projects and is the country's most expensive research facility
$200
MILLION: The Guangzhou Opera House is one of the three biggest theaters in
China, designed by architect Zaha Hadid
$368
MILLION: The Hainan power grid project is China's first underwater cross sea
power grid and will link the southern island of Hainan to mainland China
$473
MILLION: The Qinling Tunnel is the longest highway tunnel in China
$717
MILLION: The Kashgar-Hotan Railway connects all the cities and towns of the
southwestern Tarim Basin
$760
MILLION: China Central TV Headquarters is a loop of six horizontal and vertical
sections covering 1,551,837 ft.
$900
MILLION: The Tianhuangping hydroelectric project is the biggest in Asia and
plays a vital role in providing power supply in eastern China
$1.1
BILLION: The Shanghai World Financial Center Project is home to the second
highest hotel in the world - the Park Hyatt Shanghai is on the 79th floor
$1.3
BILLION: The Baltic Pearl Project is China's largest foreign development
project and consists of residential and commercial properties outside St.
Petersburg, Russia
$1.7
BILLION: The Wuhan Tianxingzhou Yangtze River Bridge is a combined road and
rail bridge across the Yangtze River in the city of Wuhan
$1.7
BILLION: The Nanjing Metro Line was completed in 2005 and is used by almost 180
million people a year
$1.8
BILLION: The Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge is the fifth longest
cable-stayed bridge in the world
$1.9
BILLION: The Chengdu Shuangliu Airport will handle 35 million passengers
annually
$2.12
BILLION: The Wuhan Railway Station serves the world's fastest trains at 217 mph
$2.2
BILLION: At 128 stories, The Shanghai Tower will be the tallest skyscraper in
China and the second tallest in the world when completed in 2014
$2.2
BILLION: The Qinshan Nuclear Power Phase II will add to the Qinshan plant and
have the most nuclear reactors of any site in the world
$2.88
BILLION: The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant is the first nuclear power station
in northeastern China and will reach 45 billion kWh annually
$3
BILLION: The Great Gabon Belinga iron ore mine is China's largest African
mining operation
$3.3
BILLION: The Tianjin offshore drilling rig is China's national base for
offshore oil development
$3.5
BILLION: The Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal is the largest
single construction project in China and the third largest building in the
world
$4.5
BILLION: Lingang New City, a planned city to be completed in 2020, will house
almost 1 million people
$6.3
BILLION: The Xiangjiaba Hydro power Project is expected to be completed by 2015
and generate 31 billion kwh annually
$5
BILLION:The Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev project will create the fastest inter-city
train in the world at 280 mph
$6.3
BILLION: The Beijing South Railway Station is Asia's largest railway station
$6.5
BILLION: China is one out several countries that signed a contract to
re-construct the ancient Silk Road linking China and India with Europe
$6.76
BILLION: Xiluodu Dam will be the third tallest dam in the world and second
largest hydro-power station in the country.
$7.89
BILLION: The Su-Tong Yangtze River Bridge is the world's longest cable-stayed
bridge
$8
BILLION: The Shanghai Yangshan Deep Water Port Project will handle the largest
container ships in the world
$8.3
BILLION: The Nigerian Railway Modernization Project is China's largest overseas
project
$10.2
BILLION: The Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station in Guangdong province will be the
biggest nuclear power plant in China
$10.2
BILLION: The Guangdong Yangjiang Nuclear Power Station will be China's newest
power plant when completed in 2013
$10.7
BILLION: The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge project will connect two huge
regions when completed in 2016
$12
BILLION: The Hainan Wenchang Space Center launch project will be the country's
newest launch center
$14
BILLION: The Harbin Dalian High-Speed Railway will serve the first high speed
train in northeast China
$16
BILLION: Hangzhou Bay Bridge is the world's longest cross-sea bridge project
$18.2
BILLION: The Jiuquan Wind Farm will be the largest wind power base in the world
when completed in 2013
$23.1
BILLION: The Kunming New International Airport will be China's 4th largest
aviation hub
$33
BILLION: The Beijing Shanghai High Speed Railway is the world's longest
high-speed rail project
$44
BILLION: China is one out of 32 countries who signed an agreement for the
construction of highways to span the continent and reach Europe
$45.4
BILLION: The Ningxia's Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industrial Base will double
the province's GDP and generate $30.3 billion after the planned 2020 completion
$62
BILLION: The South-to-North Water Diversion Project is expected to divert 44.8
billion cubic meters of water to the north by 2050
$306.7
BILLION: The "Turn the Pearl River Delta Into One" will result in an
urban "mega-city" bigger than Wales
$458
BILLION: The Tianjin Harbor Industrial Zone is one of the largest chemical
ports in the world
Other
Great Chinese Infrastructures worth mentioning
But
is China building faster than the market can keep up?
