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How much did Jiashao Bridge cost to build?

The Jiashao Bridge (Jiaxing-Shaoxing Cross-River Bridge) is the 10.1 km cable-stayed bridge across the Qiantang River estuary in Zhejiang, China, with a main bridge of 2,680 m, a width of 55.6 m for eight lanes, five main spans of up to 428 m, a design speed of 100 km/h, the world's longest and widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge when it opened at midnight on 19 July 2013, with work starting on 14 December 2008. Chinese Wikipedia gives the bridge investment as 6.35 billion yuan (63.5 yi yuan), while Beijing Urban Construction Group wrote in July 2013 that the total investment in the whole Jiashao cross-river corridor was 13.98 billion yuan (139.8 yi yuan).