Yichang – Badong expressway

Key facts

The Yichang – Badong expressway is a 180 km section of the Shanghai – Chengdu expressway. Most of the alignment runs through the Three Gorges National Park.

The expressway crosses a very hilly area with highly complex topographical and geotechnical conditions, including limestones, in which karstic phenomena have been detected, coal layers, granites, gneiss, argillite, gypsum and shales in a heavily tectonised zone.

The Expressway includes the design of 44 tunnels with a total length of over 60 km.