{"id":9479,"date":"2022-12-15T06:13:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:13:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:13:24","slug":"mega-undersea-tunnel-under-construction-in-chinas-greater-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=9479","title":{"rendered":"Mega Undersea Tunnel Under Construction in China&#8217;s Greater Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Guangdong Communications Group, the construction of the steel shell of a significant undersea tunnel in southern China has ended.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to reports, the tunnel is made up of 32 tubes, and forms part of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-sea link project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 24-kilometre connection linking the cities of Shenzhen and Zhongshan will play a significant role in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The connection contains a 6.8-kilometre underwater tunnel and two artificial islands. As said, the tunnel is the vastest undersea steel-shell immersed tunnel in the world, with four lanes in each direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-sea link will be operational by 2024. As anticipated, it will reduce the journey time between the two cities from two hours to 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V-KLgpxm9Po[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Guangdong Communications Group, the construction of the steel shell of a significant undersea tunnel in southern China has ended. According to reports, the tunnel is made up of 32 tubes, and forms part of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-sea link project. The 24-kilometre connection linking the cities of Shenzhen and Zhongshan will play a significant role in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The connection contains a 6.8-kilometre underwater tunnel and two artificial islands. As said, the tunnel is the vastest undersea steel-shell immersed tunnel in the world, with four lanes in each direction. The Shenzhen-Zhongshan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}