The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) is a bridge and tunnel project connecting Hong Kong, China, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province and Macao, China.
The acceptance of the main project was completed on February 6, 2018, and the official operation began at 9 a.m. on October 24 of the same year, and it has been in operation for more than five years.
The bridge also cost 129.6 billion yuan, and some people did not understand why such a huge amount of money was spent to build a sea-crossing bridge.
If someone calculates an account, if the average daily income of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is 860,000 yuan, about 300 million yuan a year, at this rate, it will take at least 400 years to pay back.
Everyone thinks that this is a thankless thing to spend money on, why spend a huge amount of money to build such a bridge, isn't this a waste of money?If that's the case, it's a bit short-sighted.
During the three years of the epidemic, the import and export value of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge exceeded more than 330 billion yuan, and more importantly, it was the use of this bridge to continuously and quickly transport the mainland's material resources to Hong Kong, which was completely a life-saving bridge. In this way, the meaning is very different. Even if it costs so much money to build, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is worth it.
After all, if you consider that every bridge has to recover its cost through tolls, then many bridges in China don't need to be built at all.
The value of the bridge lies in the face-to-face communication between multiple places, which can quickly and effectively shorten the time between the two places, so that the economic benefits generated by goods and tourists are the total value of the bridge.
However, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is going to open a paid tour, which makes people feel a little incredible. After all, it's just a bridge, so why don't tourists go to the bridge to see the sea?Or go and see the bridge?And this paid ** is indeed a bit high, 198 yuan during the preferential period, 298 yuan is not discounted.
Such a ticket price is much more expensive than going to many scenic spots, and other scenic spots can at least walk around in the scenic spots, but in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, you can only walk on the bridge, at most you can look at the sea, look at the bridge, and then look up at the blue sky or Hong Kong not far away.
Now anyway, there are two views, one is that the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is majestic and worth a trip for Chinese. The other believes that if it is an educational place for patriotic education, or other attractions are more cost-effective, the patriotic cost is too high.
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, we do not deny that this is a very famous and spectacular bridge, but also a building bridge of Chinese wisdom, but charging such an expensive fare, it is indeed impossible to say. Although this bridge is the pride of the Chinese, I always feel that the fare is too high and not grounded. Moreover, there are many more such spectacular bridges in China, and I have not heard of any bridges that require a toll to open as a scenic spot.
Could it be that the person in charge of the operation of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge also felt that it would take too long to recover the cost of the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and decided to use the bridge as an attraction and came up with the idea?
Now there are many people pouring cold water, thinking that the ticket price is too high, it depends on what kind of situation it will be opened in the future. If there are many people who go there, they will definitely lower the ticket price, and if the popularity remains high, it will be a lot of worry.
A modern bridge can actually become a paid attraction, which should be one of the few at home and abroad, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has become a paid attraction, it is likely to set a precedent, this is also the wisdom of the Chinese.