New tunnel across Yellow River opens to traffic in Jinan, China’s Shandong
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An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 25, 2026 shows vehicles entering a tunnel across the Yellow River in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province. A new tunnel across the Yellow River, China’s second-longest river, opened to traffic on Tuesday in Jinan.
Stretching about 5.75 kilometers in total, the tunnel under Huanggang Road features a shield-driven section of roughly 3.3 kilometers, bored by the “Shanhe” shield tunneling machine with a cutting diameter of 17.5 meters, the largest of its kind among underwater shield tunnels in the country. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)
A vehicle passes through a tolling station of a tunnel across the Yellow River in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province, Aug. 25, 2026. A new tunnel across the Yellow River, China’s second-longest river, opened to traffic on Tuesday in Jinan.
Stretching about 5.75 kilometers in total, the tunnel under Huanggang Road features a shield-driven section of roughly 3.3 kilometers, bored by the “Shanhe” shield tunneling machine with a cutting diameter of 17.5 meters, the largest of its kind among underwater shield tunnels in the country. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 25, 2026 shows a tunnel across the Yellow River in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province. A new tunnel across the Yellow River, China’s second-longest river, opened to traffic on Tuesday in Jinan.
Stretching about 5.75 kilometers in total, the tunnel under Huanggang Road features a shield-driven section of roughly 3.3 kilometers, bored by the “Shanhe” shield tunneling machine with a cutting diameter of 17.5 meters, the largest of its kind among underwater shield tunnels in the country. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 25, 2026 shows a tunnel across the Yellow River in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province. A new tunnel across the Yellow River, China’s second-longest river, opened to traffic on Tuesday in Jinan.
Stretching about 5.75 kilometers in total, the tunnel under Huanggang Road features a shield-driven section of roughly 3.3 kilometers, bored by the “Shanhe” shield tunneling machine with a cutting diameter of 17.5 meters, the largest of its kind among underwater shield tunnels in the country. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)
Vehicles run through a tunnel across the Yellow River in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province, Aug. 25, 2026. A new tunnel across the Yellow River, China’s second-longest river, opened to traffic on Tuesday in Jinan.
Stretching about 5.75 kilometers in total, the tunnel under Huanggang Road features a shield-driven section of roughly 3.3 kilometers, bored by the “Shanhe” shield tunneling machine with a cutting diameter of 17.5 meters, the largest of its kind among underwater shield tunnels in the country. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 25, 2026 shows a tunnel across the Yellow River in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province. A new tunnel across the Yellow River, China’s second-longest river, opened to traffic on Tuesday in Jinan.
Stretching about 5.75 kilometers in total, the tunnel under Huanggang Road features a shield-driven section of roughly 3.3 kilometers, bored by the “Shanhe” shield tunneling machine with a cutting diameter of 17.5 meters, the largest of its kind among underwater shield tunnels in the country.
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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.…
