China Shocked the World With Its Most Insane Megaprojects!
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From a bridge that plunges 40 meters underwater to let cargo ships sail overhead, to a trillion-dollar plan to rewrite the global trade map, China is building megaprojects that defy the limits of modern engineering. This video counts down the 10 most insane megaprojects in China, starting with the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, a 55-kilometer span across the South China Sea that includes a 6.7 km underwater tunnel built on two artificial islands anchored by 120 steel cylinders heavier than the Eiffel Tower. From there we explore Beijing Daxing International Airport, the Starfish-shaped terminal covering 700,000 square meters where 80% of gates are within a 600-meter walk, and the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world's largest hydroelectric plant whose 39.3 billion tons of reservoir water actually slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds.
The countdown continues with China's 45,000-kilometer high-speed rail network, trains hitting 350 km/h and a 164-kilometer bridge from Beijing to Shanghai, plus a rail silk route pushing into Laos and beyond. We cover the South-North Water Transfer Project, moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of water across 4,300 kilometers of canals and tunnels, and the FAST Telescope in Guizhou province, a 500-meter radio dish so sensitive it can detect a cell phone signal from the moon. The Tiangong space station, China's independently built outpost orbiting at 400 kilometers, leads into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a 62-billion-dollar network of highways and pipelines through the Karakoram Highway to the port of Gwadar. Finally, the Xiongan New Area, a carbon-neutral smart city for 2.5 million people southwest of Beijing, sets the stage for number one: the Belt and Road Initiative, a 1-trillion-dollar New Silk Road spanning 150 countries across three continents, from the Nairobi-Mombasa railway in Kenya to the port of Piraeus in Greece. Which of these megaprojects do you think is the most insane?
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China Shocked the World With Its Most Insane Megaprojects!
Snap Shift
56,152 views
From a bridge that plunges 40 meters underwater to let cargo ships sail overhead, to a trillion-dollar plan to rewrite the global trade map, China is building megaprojects that defy the limits of modern engineering. This video counts down the 10 most insane megaprojects in China, starting with the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, a 55-kilometer span across the South China Sea that includes a 6.7 km underwater tunnel built on two artificial islands anchored by 120 steel cylinders heavier than the Eiffel Tower. From there we explore Beijing Daxing International Airport, the Starfish-shaped terminal covering 700,000 square meters where 80% of gates are within a 600-meter walk, and the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, the world's largest hydroelectric plant whose 39.3 billion tons of reservoir water actually slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds.
The countdown continues with China's 45,000-kilometer high-speed rail network, trains hitting 350 km/h and a 164-kilometer bridge from Beijing to Shanghai, plus a rail silk route pushing into Laos and beyond. We cover the South-North Water Transfer Project, moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of water across 4,300 kilometers of canals and tunnels, and the FAST Telescope in Guizhou province, a 500-meter radio dish so sensitive it can detect a cell phone signal from the moon. The Tiangong space station, China's independently built outpost orbiting at 400 kilometers, leads into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a 62-billion-dollar network of highways and pipelines through the Karakoram Highway to the port of Gwadar. Finally, the Xiongan New Area, a carbon-neutral smart city for 2.5 million people southwest of Beijing, sets the stage for number one: the Belt and Road Initiative, a 1-trillion-dollar New Silk Road spanning 150 countries across three continents, from the Nairobi-Mombasa railway in Kenya to the port of Piraeus in Greece. Which of these megaprojects do you think is the most insane?