On March 10, the first pile of Hangzhou Bay Cross-Sea High Speed Railway Bridge was drilled at sea. The bridge is 29.2 kilometers long, designed for 350 kilometers per hour, starting from Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, into Hangzhou Bay, across to Ningbo City, Qianwan New Area, by the north, center and south three channel bridges and across the dike, the sea, shallow area approach Bridge. In the future, you can fly across the sea in less than 10 minutes by high-speed rail.

Hangzhou Bay cross-sea high-speed Railway Bridge is constructed by MBEC which is belong to Nantong-Ningbo high-speed railway control project, is a super-long high-speed railroad bridge cluster project, including the main span of the North Channel Bridge is 450 meters. This Bridge is the world's largest span ballast less track Cable-stayed Bridge. The channel bridge main span of 2 × 448 meters, is the world's largest span of ballast less track three towers Cable-stayed Bridge.

Nantong-Ningbo high-speed railway is an important part of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network along the coast and the status of the road network is very important. After the completion of the project, it will be connected with the Yancheng-Nantong high-speed railway, Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou high-speed railway and many other lines under construction, such as the Jinhua-Ningbo railroad and Jiangsu South Intercity Railway along the river, which will promote a more complete road network structure in the Yangtze River Delta region and is of great importance to promote the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.