The China-built cross-sea bridge, which connects the mainland province of Guangdong with the country's two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao, became a pride of Chinese engineering construction upon its opening to traffic on Tuesday.
The Chinese builders have conquered difficulties ranging from technology, construction and workload, said Ge Changwei, head of the Guangdong Provincial Commission of Development and Reform.
The bridge construction is a practice of the Chinese policy of “One Country, Two Systems,” as a great deal of coordination was carried out under the three different legal and management systems, said Ge.
Without the guidance and support from the central government, our dream of building the bridge wouldn’t come true, he stressed.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has incorporated Hong Kong and Macao into the national highway network and opened the road network in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Its construction marks the formation of the triangle with the Pearl River Estuary as the axis.