Tunnel · People's Republic of China
How much did Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link cost to build?
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link (深中通道) is a roughly 24-kilometre bridge-island-tunnel crossing of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong, China, with an eight-lane expressway, a 5,035-metre immersed tunnel, a western artificial island and the Lingdingyang Bridge with a 1,666-metre main span, built over about seven years from late 2015 and opened on 30 June 2024. At the toll hearing reported by Securities Times on 31 January 2024 the total budget estimate was CNY 44.691 billion, with capital about 46.5 percent of it; a Guangdong local-gazetteer article of November 2023 gives total investment as about CNY 50 billion.
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CNY 44.691 billion
Approximately $6.21 billion
Cost basis: 2024
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