Land section of Jintang undersea tunnel achieves full breakthrough in E China’s Zhejiang
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A construction worker works at the entrance of the Jintang undersea tunnel, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 4, 2026. The 7.83-km land section of the 16.18-km Jintang undersea tunnel achieved full breakthrough on Friday. The tunnel is an important facility for the Yongzhou (Ningbo-Zhoushan) high-speed railway, and is designed as a single-bore, double-track tunnel for speeds of up to 250 km per hour. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Construction workers work at the entrance of the Jintang undersea tunnel, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 4, 2026. The 7.83-km land section of the 16.18-km Jintang undersea tunnel achieved full breakthrough on Friday. The tunnel is an important facility for the Yongzhou (Ningbo-Zhoushan) high-speed railway, and is designed as a single-bore, double-track tunnel for speeds of up to 250 km per hour. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Construction workers pose for a group photo in celebration of the full breakthrough of the land section of the Jintang undersea tunnel, in east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 4, 2026. The 7.83-km land section of the 16.18-km Jintang undersea tunnel achieved full breakthrough on Friday. The tunnel is an important facility for the Yongzhou (Ningbo-Zhoushan) high-speed railway, and is designed as a single-bore, double-track tunnel for speeds of up to 250 km per hour. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Construction workers inspect the condition of the entrance of the Jintang undersea tunnel, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 4, 2026. The 7.83-km land section of the 16.18-km Jintang undersea tunnel achieved full breakthrough on Friday. The tunnel is an important facility for the Yongzhou (Ningbo-Zhoushan) high-speed railway, and is designed as a single-bore, double-track tunnel for speeds of up to 250 km per hour. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
A drone photo taken on Sept. 4, 2026 shows the construction site of the Jintang undersea tunnel, east China’s Zhejiang Province. The 7.83-km land section of the 16.18-km Jintang undersea tunnel achieved full breakthrough on Friday. The tunnel is an important facility for the Yongzhou (Ningbo-Zhoushan) high-speed railway, and is designed as a single-bore, double-track tunnel for speeds of up to 250 km per hour. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)
Construction workers work at the entrance of the Jintang undersea tunnel, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Sept. 4, 2026. The 7.83-km land section of the 16.18-km Jintang undersea tunnel achieved full breakthrough on Friday. The tunnel is an important facility for the Yongzhou (Ningbo-Zhoushan) high-speed railway and is designed as a single-bore, double-track tunnel for speeds of up to 250 km per hour.
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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.…
