Construction on a cable-stayed viaduct spanning over east China's Qiantang River began on Sunday in the Zhejiang Province.
By 2012, it is expected to break a world record for length. That record is held now by the French Millau bridge.
The Jia-Shao (Jiaxing-Shaoxing) bridge will have six piers supporting an 8-lane roadway. It is designed to span 2,680 meters, 220 meters longer than the French Millau bridge.
With a planned investment of nearly 14 billion yuan, it will become the second bridge built at Hangzhou Bay.
The Jia-Shao bridge will become a section on the national highway linking Shenyang with Haikou, capital of southernmost China's Hainan Province.
Source: Xinhua
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