6 minutes to the sea floor!The main line of Shantou Bay Tunnel operated by the Yangtze River Tunnel team starts smoothly

At 8 am on September 28, Shantou held a grand opening ceremony. After Wen Zhanbin, secretary of the Shantou Municipal Party Committee, announced the official opening of traffic and jointly pushed the "startup pole" with the main leaders of Shantou. "The Shantou Bay Tunnel finally unveiled the mystery and began to officially open trial operation. Wuhan Sanzhen Industrial Holdings Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel Company were invited to participate in the opening ceremony as a tunnel operation and maintenance service unit.

The Shantou Gulf Tunnel is the first large diameter shield tunnel in the 8 -degree earthquake intensity area in China. It is also one of the first domestic submarine tunnels with a large diameter shield through the large diameter shield through the large diameter shield. It lasted for more than 7 years. Known as "world -class challenge project".

The total investment of the tunnel is about 5.7 billion yuan, with a total length of 6.68 kilometers. It is equipped with a two -way six -lane lane. The design speed is 60 kilometers per hour. After the tunnel is opened to traffic, the traffic time of cross -strait will be shortened from the current 40 minutes to 6 minutes. The completion of major transportation infrastructure such as Shantou Bay Tunnel will improve the Shantou transportation system, enhance the gathering and radiation function of Shantou as the provincial sub -center cities, accelerate the construction of the city development pattern of the "one bay and both sides of the strait", and integrate the Shantou into the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. Construction and participating in the construction of the “Belt and Road”, which is of great significance to accelerate the creation of vitality special zones, and the native of the U.S. Overseas Chinese and East Guangdong.

Since Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel Co., Ltd. successfully won the bidding Bay Tunnel on the trial operation and maintenance service of the Bay Tunnel on September 2, a large number of technical experts and professional management personnel have been dispatched to the Gulf Tunnel. In the face of short time, high pressure, and timely, they will run. For more than 20 consecutive days of continuous work, all the joint preparations for joint testing, emergency planning and drills, coordination of functional departments at all levels, and training management personnel training were completed. The service purpose, with the standard of tunnel operation and management of the first level of security, comprehensively builds the security management system of the Gulf Tunnel to ensure that the Gulf Tunnel is safely opened to traffic.

During the opening ceremony, a tunnel car patrol vehicle with an E -A license was particularly noticeable. The organizer specifically arranged it as a header to lead other social vehicles to the safe traffic bay tunnel.

The person in charge of Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel said at the opening site that Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel Company, as the operating and maintenance unit of the "Wanli Yangtze River First Tunnel", handed over the 14 -year satisfactory answer sheet of the Yangtze River Tunnel. In recent years, the company has provided technical consulting, safety system establishment, operation and maintenance management and other tunnel management services such as the construction and underwater tunnel projects built and under construction. Providing trial operation and maintenance services for the Shantou Bay Tunnel this time is not only a development opportunity, but also a huge challenge. Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel Company will not be afraid of difficulties or challenges. Management services, work with the people of Shantou together to write a new chapter in the management of tunnel operation and maintenance! (Correspondent Zhu Dan)

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