WORLD’S LONGEST SEA BRIDGE

About:

• The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge will also be the sixth longest bridge of any kind.
  
  
• The new sea bridge will connect the east and west sides of the Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea.
  
  
• Zhuhai is a city on the Chinese mainland, which will be connected with the two Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
  
  
• Objective:
  • It is a key component of China’s plan to develop a “Greater Bay Area”, a business hub comprising Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities of Guangdong province.
    
    
  • The Greater Bay Area will aim to rival New York and Tokyo in terms of technological innovation and economic success
    
    
  
  
  
• Criticism:
  • But critics look at the bridge as a political statement asserting China’s control over Hong Kong and Macau.
    
    
  • Both are former European colonies, handed back to China in the late 1990s, and are run under the “one country, two systems” principle, which allows them to retain their systems of government independent of China for 50 years.