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Island County to be Linked with Wenzhou in E. China

Construction has begun to establish links between the major islands of Dongtou County and the prosperous Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, east China.


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Construction has begun to establish links between the major islands of Dongtou County and the prosperous Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province, east China.

The main part of the program is the construction of a number ofbridges linking Dongtou County, home to 103 islands in the East Sea, to Wenzhou, famous for its booming private economy. The nearest point of the county is 60 kilometers from Wenzhou.

The county is about 200 square kilometers in size with rich tourism resources, while Wenzhou is only 120 square kilometers andshort of land resources.

Local officials say the project will double the land resources for the city, and improve maritime transportation.

Along the islands, there are several berths capable of handlingships of up to 200,000 dead weight tonnage. Preparations are underway for the construction of two berths for container carriersof 50,000 dead weight tonnage.

The longest planned bridge, at 2,533 meters, will connect Longwan District of Wenzhou and Lingkun Island at an estimated cost of 110 million yuan (13 million US dollars).

The construction of seven bridges totaling 3.1 kilometers were completed last year, which link eight islands.

The program has pushed up the land price in Dongtou Island, where the price of land use right for commercial development jumped to up to 25.2 million yuan (about 3.07 million US dollars) per hectare from 900,000 yuan (109,750 US dollars) three years ago.


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