SATV, Kathmandu, Aug. 22 - The Yangtze River Delta, China's most economically developed region, has long had one major weakness: its coastal transport network forms a "C" shape, with a gap around the Zhoushan Archipelago, China's largest group of islands.

In recent years, however, a mega island-linking project has been closing that gap, connecting Ningbo to the south with Shanghai to the north and gradually transforming the Delta's coastal transport network from a "C" into an "O."

The Zhoudai Bridge is the "final piece of the puzzle" for Zhoushan's Island-Connecting Expressway. Since it opened to traffic in 2021, the network has reached a total length of 86.68 kilometers, linking eight islands and becoming China's longest island-connecting expressway.