World's Longest Spiral Tunnel Completes Construction
世界最长螺旋隧道新晋高速韩口隧道全线贯通
Click on the video
NB: This is not a word-for-word transcript
The construction of the Hankou Tunnel locating on the Xinxiang-Jincheng Expressway -- the world's longest spiral tunnel -- has been completed within the assigned 858 days.
历时858天，世界最长螺旋隧道新——新晋高速韩口隧道实现了双线贯通。
Linking Xinxiang city of Henan province with Jincheng city of Shanxi province, the expressway is 69.754 kilometers long, including 28-kilometer tunnel complex.
新晋高速连接河南新乡与山西晋城，全长69.754公里，其中隧道群长28公里。
The Hankou Tunnel is dubbed the "No.1 Spiral Tunnel in the World" along the expressway as a result of its marvelous length.
韩口隧道之所以被称为世界第一螺旋隧道，因为它是新晋高速螺旋隧道群中最长的一个。
Compared with the Jinjiazhuang Tunnel listed in the Guinness Book of World Records on the expressway linking Yanqing district of Beijing with Chongli district of Zhangjiakou city in Hebei province, the Hankou Tunnel exceeds in the length (4,457 meters), minimum radius (about 700 meters) and maximum elevation difference between the tunnel entrance and exit (109 meters).
单洞最长为4457米，最小半径约700米，进口和出口端山体的最大相对高差达109米，均超过了拥有吉尼斯记录的延崇高速金家庄隧道。
When completed, travel time will be cut short by over 2 hours and people from Xinxiang can get to Jincheng in 1 hour.
高速公路建成通车后，河南新乡到山西晋城将从目前的3个多小时缩短至1个小时。（中文来源/大河网 记者/祝传鹏 编译/赵汉青 杨佳欣 视频/何蒙贺 审校/丁岚）