On February 16, 2023, with the appearance of a monster weighing 7,600 tons (equivalent to the weight of 760 adult African elephants) and a plane size of 13,000 square meters (equivalent to the size of 31 standard basketball courts) on the Xihoumen Waterway, it stopped Moving, the self-floating drilling platform of the No. 5 pier of the Xihoumen Highway and Railway Bridge on the Yongzhou Railway, which was constructed and managed by the Shanghai-Hangzhou Passenger Dedicated Railway Company, designed by the China Railway Bridge Institute, and constructed by the China Railway Bridge Bureau, marks the world's largest cross-highway The foundation construction of the main tower pier of the dual-purpose railway bridge kicked off.

The Ningbo-Zhou Railway starts from Ningbo East Station in the west, passes through Yinzhou District and Beilun District of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, Jintang Island, Cezi Island and Zhoushan Main Island in Zhoushan City, and ends at Baiquan Town in Dinghai District in the east. It has a total length of about 77 kilometers and a design speed of 250 kilometers per hour. It is to build a "one-hour traffic circle" in Zhejiang Province and form a convenient passenger transport channel between the mainland and Zhoushan Island.

The Xihoumen Highway-Railway Bridge is a cross-sea bridge for the Yongzhou Railway and the Yongzhou Expressway across the Xihoumen Waterway, connecting Zhoushan Jintang Island and Cezi Island. The total length of the bridge is 3118 meters. Pier No. 4 and No. 5 are the main tower piers. The main span adopts a 1488-meter cable-stayed and suspension coordination system, and the bridge deck is 68 meters wide.

The bridge adopts a "road-railway level" layout, with railways in the middle and roads on both sides. The railway is a double-line passenger dedicated line, and the road is a two-way 6-lane expressway.

After the completion of the Ningbo-Zhouzhou Railway, it will fill the gap in the lack of railways in Zhoushan City. It will improve the layout of the railway network, promote the development of tourism along the line, realize the integration and urbanization of Ningbo and Zhoushan, and accelerate the integration of Zhoushan and Ningbo into the Belt and Road and the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Significance. Editor/Xu Shengpeng