Longest sea bridge opens, "China's Jiaozhou"

China has opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge - which stretches five miles further than the distance

between Dover and Calais.


The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26 miles (42 kilometers) long and links China's eastern port city of Qingdao to the

island of Huangdao.

State-run CCTV says the 110-foot (35-meter)-wide bridge is the longest of its kind and cost more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion).

"Bunch of wannabes,'' Causeway General Manager Carlton Dufrechou said.

The $2.3 billion Jiaozhou Bay bridge in the east China city of Qingdao opened to vehicles Thursday and

measures 26 miles, a little more than two miles longer than the Causeway, which checks in at nearly 24 miles.

An Associated Press story touts the Jiaozhou Bridge as the new world's longest bridge over open water. So

does the Guinness Book of World Records (which now relegates the Causeway to No. 2) and the oft-used-

but-sometimes-not-totally-accurate Wikipedia website.

The bridge supported by more than 5,000 pillars was built in four years