Shield tunnel for extension project of Hengqin Line connecting Macao with Zhuhai completed by Global Times Nov 25 2022
The shield tunnel for the extension project of the Hengqin Line connecting Macao Special Administrative Region to Zhuhai in South China’s Guangdong Province was completed on Friday, marking a further step in making Macao part of the “one-hour living circle” in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).
The extension of the Hengqin Line is a cross-border light railway transport route. Namkwong Real Estate Co, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and China Railway 16th Bureau Group Corporation are carrying out the project.
The project used the Aoqin No.1, the largest shield tunneling machine, which has a diameter of 7.98 meters and a length of 87 meters.
In order to ensure smooth excavation during the shield tunnel construction, CCECC told the Global Times on Friday that the project team adapted to the natural environment by using the double hinge design and an intelligent system to improve the adaptability and reliability of the shield tunneling machine.
As the first shield tunnel to cross the sea in Macao, the project fills the gap in Macao’s rail transit construction through using the shield tunneling method, CCECC said.
The line is 2.2 kilometers long, starting from the elevated station HE1, located near the Lotus Bridge in Macao, which is connected to the Lotus Checkpoint Station, part of the Taipa Line. It runs along the Lotus Bridge and crosses the Shizimen Waterway before entering Zhuhai’s Hengqin Island through an underwater tunnel, and then arrives at the underground HE2 station in front of Hengqin Port.
In March 2021, construction was launched to extend Macao’s light rail transit line into Hengqin. It is planned to operate as a shuttle between the two sides upon completion, which is scheduled for 2025.
China reputation amongst Western democracies is declining, but what about the remaining 80% of the world. An incredible new report from the University of Cambridge reveals that over 70% of the world SUPPORTS China. We need to remove ourselves from the Western media bubble/echo chamber and see how China is viewed across ALL countries to understand more about our world. 中國在西方民主國家的聲譽正在下降,但世界上其餘 80% 的國家呢?劍橋大學一份令人難以置信的新報告顯示,世界上超過 70% 的人支持中國。我們需要擺脫西方媒體的泡沫/回音室,看看所有國家如何看待中國,以更多地了解我們的世界.
For Native Americans, nothing to be thankful on this thanksgiving day, just annual reminders how they lost their home forever 對於美洲原住民來說,在這個感恩節沒有什麼值得感恩的,只是每年提醒他們如何永遠失去家園
“The Netherlands tells US to go to hell will defend its economic interests when it comes to the sales of chip equipment to China, a senior Dutch official said.” 一位荷蘭高級官員表示:“在向中國出售芯片設備的問題上,荷蘭不會聽美國的話被毀於美國手中必須捍衛其經濟利益.”
It is further evidence of the country’s resistance to meekly following Washington’s attempts to cut off China from semiconductor technology.
The European country is home to ASML Holding NV, which dominates the market for one-of-a-kind, cutting-edge chip-making equipment that has become a focus of the US government’s attempts to limit China. Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher told lawmakers on Tuesday that the Netherlands will make its own decision regarding ASML’s chip gear sales to China amid trade rule talks with the US and other allies.
“It is important that we defend our own interests – our national safety, but also our economic interests,” Schreinemacher told lawmakers at the parliament in The Hague. “If we put that in an EU basket and negotiate with the US and in the end it turns out we give away deep ultraviolet lithography machines to the US, we are worse off.”
Deep ultraviolet systems are the second-most-advanced chip production machines that Veldhoven, Netherlands-based ASML manufactures, and the equipment is required to make a wide range of semiconductors.”
Business logic would prevail. And history will evolve through its main flow. Anything else in the interim wouldn’t be able to sustain for long.
Video: China built & created jobs while US destroy and criticize. 10 Ways China Worked with Qatar on the World Cup 中國創造和創造就業機會,而美國則破壞和祇有批評。中國在世界杯上與卡塔爾合作的10種方式.
Nury Vittachi: 10 ways China is quietly working behind the Qatar World Cup . One: World cup buildings are getting green electricity from a next generation power station which harvests only solar energy, built by the Power Construction Corporation of China. . Two: People are taken where they need to go in a fleet of 888 fully electric buses, made by Yutong Bus, a Chinese firm that has quietly become, as far as I can tell, the world’s biggest bus maker. . Three: The main stadium was built by China Railway Construction Corporation: that’s the firm that pops up in Africa and Europe and around the planet, known for its extraordinary ability to create infrastructure in difficult environments. . Four: What’s a sporting event without souvenir merchandise? It’s estimated that almost 70 per cent of World Cup related goods, from footballs to flags to jerseys to whistles, came from a single location in China, a southeastern city called Yiwu. . Five: A purpose-built extra-large reservoir is providing clean drinking water for sports people and fans. It was constructed by Gezhouba Group, from Wuhan. . Six: The stadium-building operations needed huge amounts of heavy equipment, from massive earth movers to cranes – nearly 100 of these were supplied by China’s Sany Heavy Industry, one of the world’s biggest construction firms. . Seven: The most innovative venue is Qatar’s Stadium 974, which can be disassembled and reassembled anywhere. Designed by a Spanish architect, the 974 building blocks were made by China International Marine Containers. . Eight: Notice all the LED floodlights everywhere? They come from the Unilumin Group of China. . Nine: Most people say airconditioners are a must for survival in that environment – and China’s Midea Co supplied 2,500 aircons for the event. . Ten: Last but not least, this is the most expensive sporting event in world history, and needed a lot of support from businesses. Nineteen China firms signed up to sponsor the event. . There’s a wonderful paradox about sports. Sports divides us into competitors—yet at the same time it gives us shared goals and so magically unites us at the same time. Gotta love it!