The main tower of the first waterway bridge of China’s first cross-sea railroad bridge,Pingtan Haixia Railroad Bridge,completed capping on April 27. The waterway bridge will enter the phase of steel beam erection afterwards.[Video provided to en.ptnet.cn]

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The cross-sea link is part of the 88-km Fuzhou-Pingtan railway. It will start from Songxia Port in neighboring Changle county, stretch southeast over the Yuanhong channel, the Guyumen channel, Changyu Island, Xiaolian Island, the Xiaolian-Dalian island channel, Dalian Islet, Haitan Strait, and finally reach Su’ao town on Pingtan Island.

With an estimated investment of 10.9 billion yuan ($1.78 billion), the bridge is expected to be open to traffic in 2019.