China News Agency, Wuhan fifteen October report (Xu Jinbo Li Lin Shan) China Railway Major Bridge reconnaissance and Design Institute chief engineer of the Yushiwu attended the forum of Wuhan International Bridge Technology revealed, as the connection between the Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island Guangdong Qiongzhou Strait channel construction has already started, and has completed the project planning and passed the appraisal project investment, is expected to more than one hundred and forty billion yuan.

    Located between the Leizhou Peninsula and the Hainan Island of the Qiongzhou Strait, is one of the three big channel of China, its about eighty kilometers east-west, north-south width of twenty-nine point five km on average, straight-line distance of about eighteen kilometers at its narrowest. The Qiongzhou Strait between Hainan Island and the mainland blocking traffic, a direct impact on the development of Hainan's economy, the construction of the Qiongzhou Strait cross sea passage imminent.

    Since the ninety's of last century to the present, China Ministry of communications, the Ministry of railways, Guangdong Province of Qiongzhou Strait sea channel has conducted research projects. Two 00 eight years, in the guidance and coordination of the national development and Reform Commission, by the Ministry of railways, the Ministry of transport, Guangdong Province, Hainan Province jointly planning the project. Survey Design Institute of China railway bridge sea engineering design and have participated in the East China Sea Bridge, Hangzhou bay bridge span, responsible for the preliminary study of the project.

    Gao Zongyu said, the Qiongzhou Strait sea crossing project area with water depth, wind, wave, complex geological structure, volcano and earthquake activity, the navigation requirements high, unfavorable factors such as environmental sensitive. But China has deep long span bridge technology innovation and based on the engineering practice, through the organization of scientific research, design, construction, equipment manufacturing technology, can be achieved in the Qiongzhou Strait Bridge construction. Experts in at about eighty km of the Strait range preliminary draft two comparison of bridge, which connects Leizhou Peninsula Xuwen County, sloping village and Hainan Island Doran angle of the West Bridge, connecting Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Fort angle tail angle line bridge.