The china-malaysia friendship bridge is under construction. (source: People's Daily)
Chinese companies help maldives achieve the bridge dream.
Maldives, an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean, consists of 26 natural atolls and 1,192 coral islands, which are located in the area of 90,000 square kilometers. From the plane, a small island is like a pearl inlaid on a blue sea.
Water qingsha young, blue sea blue sky, fish circle around. The unique and beautiful environment has made the maldives a global tourist resort. Maldivians, however, have their own problems - the maldives has long had no Bridges and most maldivians have not seen the bridge. The main way to connect the islands is to ferry them, which severely restricts the development space of maldives.
Maldives is an important stage of the ancient maritime silk road, and it is in all directions. Today, the reporter sees in the process of visiting the maldives, under the background of "area", represented by the china-malaysia friendship bridge of china-malaysia cooperation is in full swing, the development of the islands national energy release are getting bigger.
President xi jinping paid a state visit to the maldives in September 2014. The talks, the two heads of state of male - the airport island bridge the cooperation projects, yaming's attention, he offered to the bridge is named "china-malaysia friendship bridge", xi President readily answer. Also during the visit, President yaming said repeatedly, xi jinping, chairman of the proposed construction of the Marine silk road initiative of the 21st century visionary, Malaysia fully support and may seize the opportunity, actively participate in.
Maldivians say that the china-malaysia friendship bridge is a century project in the maldives, which is not an exaggeration. Of the thousands of islands in the maldives, 200 live in the maldives, including the island of mala, the airport island and the island of houlumah. Previously, the island of the airport was linked to a road on the island of houlumah, but the island needed to ferry him to the airport. The island is less than 1.8 square kilometers and the roads are so narrow that it is difficult to unload trucks. Therefore, if you can repair the bridge that connects the island of ma island to the airport island, the three islands join together, and the national development space of maldives will take a qualitative leap immediately.
To the delight of the Malaysian side, the Chinese not only speak of it, but also act quickly. Cooperation intention after finalizing china-malaysia friendship bridge, China's commerce ministry immediately launched the project bidding process, choose the best bridge construction enterprise and project management companies to participate in the construction, and the maldives housing and infrastructure china-malaysia friendship bridge between the government coordination mechanism is established.
Date of release: 2017-07-09 11:31:06 source: People's Daily