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Saturday, September 6th, 2008Beijing Olympic – World’s longest sea-spanning bridge to open in May near Shanghai
Saturday, September 6th, 2008A 36-km bridge, the world’s longest sea-spanning structure, will open to traffic on May 1, a spokesman for the project headquarters said.
“The main part of the project has been completed and 95 percent of the ancillary works has also been finished,” said Wang Yong, chief commander of the bridge construction project.
The bridge, spanning Hangzhou Bay near Shanghai, will cut the length of road trip from Shanghai to Ningbo, a busy port in east China’s Zhejiang Province, by 120 km.
The bridge is a cable-stayed structure built at a cost of 11.8 billion yuan (1.64 billion U.S. dollars).
Construction of the six-lane bridge, which will allow a speed of 100 km per hour, began in November 2003.
The bridge would boost economic integration and development in the Yangtze River Delta, which covers almost 100,000 square km comprising Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu and is home to 72.4 million people, Wang said.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
Chinese Culture – Looking For the Capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty (5)
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Bronze Wares
“The Zhouyuan relic is unique for its large quantity of cellars, the density of distribution, the elaboration of the casting skills, and the length of the inscriptions, which reflects Zhouyuan’s prosperity in the Western Zhou Dynasty.”
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Without adequate archaeology evidence, any view can only be taken with a grain of salt. So Xu Tianjin and his colleagues continued to search for evidence.
In July of 2004, they found the ruins of a bronze wares shop, which was built in the early Western Zhou Dynasty at an even earlier time. In that time, copperware casting was a very important production field in society, and only the capital had workshops for making copperware. On December 31, 2004, Xu and his colleagues discovered the Zhou city, located approximately 20 kilometers from the Zhougong Temple…
With many new ruins gradually appearing in front of people’s eyes, it seems that a vague impression of the Western Zhou Dynasty is forming.
At present, many archaeologists are still striving to find the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Whatever the changes in Zhouyuan, those bronze wares buried in the earth still retain their original faces.
（Source: chinaculture.org）
