Gaoji Causeway
Gaoji Causeway () is a 2,212-meter-long causeway in Xiamen, Fujian, China. It links Gaoqi in downtown Xiamen Island across the Xiamen Bay to Jimei District on the mainland. It used to serve as a road and rail link, as well as water piping into Xiamen Island. In order to improve the water quality around Xiamen Island, part of the causeway was blasted off and removed, replaced by bridge, and it would serve only as road link. Completed in 1955, along with Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, the causeway is considered one of the major construction projects in the early years of the People's Republic of China. It remained Xiamen Island's sole link with the mainland until 1991. The Gaoji Causeway has a museum devoted to its construction and history founded in 2013. History In early 1950s, Xiamen was on the front line of Cold War, as the island was not far away from KMT controlled Kinmen. The Chinese Communist Party had an urgent need to build a reliable supply line to the island. In 1951, inspired by the Johor–Singapore Causeway, Tan Kah Kee from Singapore suggested to Xiamen Mayor Liang Lingguang () that a similar causeway be built to link Xiamen