Pingtan Strait Rail-Road Bridge is the second sea-crossing bridge on Pingtan Island. As the first sea-crossing rail-road bridge in China, Pingtan Strait Rail-Road Bridge is deemed one of the greatest feats in bridge construction. 16.34-kilometer-long, it is also the longest of its kind in the world.

The double-decker carries a 100 kph highway on top and a 200 kph high-speed traintrack beneath. The epochal corridor connects Pingtan Island and four nearby islets to the mainland.

The bridge spans Haitan Strait,reportedly one of the top 3 windy spots on earth along with the infamous Bermuda Triangle and the Cape of Good Hope, once reputed as the “Pandora’s box” of bridge builders for high winds, choppy waters, rapid ocean currents, and rugged seabed, making it almost “mission impossible” to build a bridge across this treacherous water. The construction team took 7 years to conquer the “impossible.” 

The railway shortens the travel time between Pingtan and the provincial capital city of Fuzhou to around half an hour. The bridge will reportedly become an indispensable link to the future Beijing-Taiwan channel in the pipeline.