As Lingdingyang tides caress the thousand-year coastline, a mega project emerges from the sea. The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link is not only a transportation backbone in the Greater Bay Area but also a monument to China's infrastructure epoch. Photographer Zhang Zhan spent six years documenting its rise from blueprint to reality.

The "Tianyi" integrated vessel precisely positions a steel box girder onto a bridge pier.

Boatswain Huang Jun commands a crane vessel into position from the "Tianyi" bow.

Crew members pave the bridge deck with precision.

Main cable strands for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge's west tower are threaded into cable saddles.

Bathed in dawn's glow, "Tianyi" ferries a concrete girder toward the installation site.

A strand saddle is secured within the anchorage structure.