Name: 中国、世界最長の海にかかる橋を公開 (China Unveils World's Longest Sea Bridge)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:57:11.000Z
Duration: 8 min 21 s
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程度の副詞

China has just built a ginormous bridge connecting

the Chinese mainland with Hong Kong and Macau.

Actually, not that good for drivers either.

officially opened to the public on Tuesday.

coming all the way from the Hundred Acre Wood.

It's been dubbed the “bridge of death”.

Sorry—that's not as metal as it sounds.

so many construction workers died making it.

At least 19 people were killed and hundreds seriously injured.

Also, the bridge was completed two years past deadline

and nearly 1.5 billion dollars over budget.

But never mind all the financial problems and dead people!

"It is envisaged that the collaboration between Guangdong,

Hong Kong will assume a more proactive role

in the development of the Greater Bay area.”

The Greater Bay Area is a hub made up of nine cities

Foshan, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai,

along with the two Special Administrative Regions

like Tokyo, New York and San Francisco—

China's Greater Bay Area has by far the largest population,

Speaking of the economy, the cost of the bridge

was originally estimated to break even after 36 years.

But like I said earlier, it's just a tad over budget,

plus it looks like they may have overestimated

how many people would be using the bridge,

One Chinese professor says it could take more than 72 years.

I'll almost have finished paying off my student loans.

The official reason for the bridge is to reduce trade barriers

by being a faster and simpler way to travel

Granted, it's not quite as simple as crossing a bridge in,

Because to cross the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge,

each of which has a completely different application process.

The process is so convoluted that the government

had to make this two-and-a-half minute animated video

Oh, and did I mention that in addition to

But the good news is that most people won't even have

to deal with all of those permits and insurance issues.

they're capping the number of private cars

a certain amount of taxes in mainland China.

you can also either donate 5 million yuan—

or you can be a member of the National People's Congress

or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

and county levels of Guangdong province.”

didn't exactly build the people's bridge.

But you might be better off just taking the ferry.

all the bridge-related construction scandals.

Like the one in which a former technician admitted to

faking the quality test results of concrete because...

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