Across the huge Asian state are large bridges, one of which reaches out into a bay between Jiaozhou and Qingdao which was the first European colony located fully on the Chinese mainland.

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Germany also established German New Guinea, German Samoa, island protectorates in the Pacific, and leased territory around Jiaozhou Bay in China. All the colonies were lost by 1918, after Germany ...

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At this point, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized it as the world's longest bridge, a record which was undisputed until 2011 when China's 26.5-mile Jiaozhou Bay Bridge opened.

In 1897, Germany invaded and occupied Jiaozhou Bay, a natural harbour on the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula. The following year, the weakening Qing dynasty government, unable to fight ...

Staffers from CREC4 Seventh Engineering work on the Jiaozhou Bay Second Tunnel in Qingdao, Shandong province. LI PINGHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese State builders participating in the building of the ...

The system includes a tunnel under the bay and a bridge over the water, making it a mix of both. The Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Tunnel is a 9.47-kilometer (5.9 miles) tunnel under the water in China.

The seawater takes a serious toll on this bridge. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge stretches over 26 miles across Jiaozhou Bay. The bridge had to be built using corrosion-resistant materials to endure ...

The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in eastern China reportedly cost a whopping $8.8bn to construct - or £5.5bn. Completed in 2011, the mammoth structure was constructed to connect the eastern coastal city ...

A controversy began in 2011 when the newly-built Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China was named “world’s longest bridge over water” by Guinness Book of World Records, a title previously held by Lake ...