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.

Published project estimate

CNY 44.691 billion

Approximately $6.21 billion

Cost basis: 2024

Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link in June 2025
ShujianyangCC BY-SA 4.0

Cost evidence

Basis of the published figure

Published project estimate2024
dfz.gd.gov.cn

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Key dimensions

Total lengthXinhua
24 km
Main spanXinhua
1,666 m

Project record

Timeline

  1. 25 December 2015

    Construction started

    Guangdong Provincial Situation Network
  2. 30 June 2024

    Opened or launched

    Xinhua

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