The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link is a centennial gateway project for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with a total length of 24 kilometers. The route starts from the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Coastal Expressway Airport Interchange, crosses the Pearl River Estuary, and connects Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Zhongshan. It is a world-class cross-sea cluster project featuring bridges, islands, tunnels, and underwater interchanges with a dual eight-lane highway.
This episode, set against the backdrop of the burgeoning transportation demand between the urban clusters on the east and west coasts of the Greater Bay Area, tells the story of a group of top Chinese engineers. With their wisdom and experience, they overcame numerous challenges in geology, hydrology, climate, navigation, and aviation height restrictions during the construction of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link. Our camera crew travelled across most parts of China, following the nation's top research team as they chased typhoons, visiting China's "Capital of Bridge Construction" to showcase the national industrial strength, and exploring a range of locations from key laboratories to cutting-edge intelligent manufacturing factories that lead the international manufacturing trend. Through vivid engineering validation experiments and stories of Chinese engineers' decisions and struggles in the face of extreme difficulties, this episode presents a multi-dimensional, world-class "super project"—the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link.
