Bohai Strait tunnel
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The Bohai Strait Tunnel or Dalian-Yantai Tunnel project proposes the construction of an undersea tunnel to connect Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula to Yantai on the Shandong Peninsula. Another name for the project is Cross-Bohai-Strait channel.[1]
Crossing the Bohai Strait the tunnel would be 123 kilometres (76 mi) long, 90 kilometres (56 mi) of it under water. This would exceed the combined lengths of the two longest undersea tunnels on Earth, the Seikan Tunnel and the Channel tunnel.[2]
Operated by China Railway Engineering Corporation the tunnel would be linked to the highspeed railway system of China. Cars would be loaded on railway carriages to make the 40 minute crossing. Currently there is a ferry service, the 2007 inaugurated Bohai Train Ferry, that crosses the strait in eight hours.[2]
The project is estimated to cost 200 billion yuan (US$32 billion). It was reported in August 2014 that work is likely to commence during the 13th Five-year plan and construction would take ten years to complete.[3]
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