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Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

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Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 12, 2026 shows the construction site of the No. 20 main tower of the Fuchimen road-rail bridge along the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The main tower, constructed by the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was successfully topped out on Sunday, marking the completion of the construction of all six main towers of the three cross-sea bridges of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway.

The main line of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway is 76.4 kilometers long, starting from Ningbo East Railway Station in the west and ending at Zhoushan Island in the east, with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 12, 2026 shows the construction site of the No. 20 main tower of the Fuchimen road-rail bridge along the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The main tower, constructed by the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was successfully topped out on Sunday, marking the completion of the construction of all six main towers of the three cross-sea bridges of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway.

The main line of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway is 76.4 kilometers long, starting from Ningbo East Railway Station in the west and ending at Zhoushan Island in the east, with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 12, 2026 shows the construction site of the No. 20 main tower of the Fuchimen road-rail bridge along the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The main tower, constructed by the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was successfully topped out on Sunday, marking the completion of the construction of all six main towers of the three cross-sea bridges of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway.

The main line of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway is 76.4 kilometers long, starting from Ningbo East Railway Station in the west and ending at Zhoushan Island in the east, with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 12, 2026 shows the construction site of the No. 20 main tower of the Fuchimen road-rail bridge along the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The main tower, constructed by the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was successfully topped out on Sunday, marking the completion of the construction of all six main towers of the three cross-sea bridges of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway.

The main line of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway is 76.4 kilometers long, starting from Ningbo East Railway Station in the west and ending at Zhoushan Island in the east, with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

Construction workers work at the No. 20 main tower of Fuchimen road-rail bridge along Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 12, 2026. The main tower, constructed by the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was successfully topped out on Sunday, marking the completion of the construction of all six main towers of the three cross-sea bridges of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway.

The main line of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway is 76.4 kilometers long, starting from Ningbo East Railway Station in the west and ending at Zhoushan Island in the east, with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Fuchimen road-rail bridge’s No. 20 tower topped out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

Construction workers work at the No. 20 main tower of Fuchimen road-rail bridge along Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway in Zhoushan, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 12, 2026. The main tower, constructed by the China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co., Ltd., was successfully topped out on Sunday, marking the completion of the construction of all six main towers of the three cross-sea bridges of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway.

The main line of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway is 76.4 kilometers long, starting from Ningbo East Railway Station in the west and ending at Zhoushan Island in the east, with a designed speed of 250 kilometers per hour. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20260913/d9356cd0808945c19e8dabbd3f310fb2/c.html

Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…

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