The Dongwuyang Super Bridge, a pivotal control project of the Ningde-Shangrao Expressway that links the provinces of Fujian and Jiangxi in east China, make full structural closure on Monday, paving the way for the highway's opening to traffic by the end of the year.
Spanning 2,546.6 meters in total length, the super bridge includes four closure segments, each measuring two meters. The four segments were connected using cantilever cast-in-place concrete construction with form travelers. To ensure casting quality and reduce temperature-related stress, workers carried out concrete pouring at cooler wee hours, with the last cube of concrete pouring done at 02:00 on Monday, completing the structural closure of the entire bridge.
The Ningde-Shangrao Expressway, part of China's national expressway network, is expected to significantly boost the development of Fujian's eastern coastal industrial cluster. Once it opens to traffic at the end of the year, the expressway will also promote local tourism and increase the overall regional competitiveness.
Super coastal highway bridge connected in Fujian
China and Canada should work together to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Beijing on Friday.
He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while attending the Canada-China Trade and Investment Banquet together with the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Speaking at the event, He said that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by their leaders, China and Canada should adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, win-win cooperation, and mutual success, and jointly promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
China is steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, continuously developing new quality productive forces, and is willing to work with countries around the world, including Canada, to create new prospects for cooperation, said He.
Carney noted at the banquet that China is Canada's second-largest trading partner and said Canada looks forward to strengthening high-level exchanges with China, making full use of dialogue mechanisms in areas such as the economy and trade, and deepening cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy and other fields.
Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin a four-day official visit to China, marking the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in eight years.
China, Canada should work together for stable, healthy, sustainable economic ties: Vice Premier
