Chinese Engineers Dig in Deep To Build Runyang's Dynamic Duo
The islet has about 15,000 residents, while the nearest river crossing lies upstream 80 km away at the the Nanjing Second Yangtze River Bridge.
Contractor China Road & Bridge Group, Second Highway Engineering Bureau, began construction on the Runyang project in October 2000. The total project costs approximately $602 million. It includes the suspension span, the cable-stayed span and two interchanges, one of which is on the island. The project is scheduled to be completed in October of 2005, says Man-Chung Tang, chairman of San Francisco-based T.Y. Lin International, a special consultant on the project.