Gaoji Causeway

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.

[1] 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.

The suggestion was highly regarded by Chen Yi, then the Party Secretary of the CPC Central Committee East China Bureau, who wrote three letters to Mao Zedong in support of the causeway.

After its completion in October 1955, a stele was erected by the causeway with the words "Move the mountain to fill the sea" (移山填海) written by Zhu De in honour of the achievement.

The trademarks of many products made by local state-own companies are "Sea Dyke" (海堤, pinyin: Hǎidì; Peh-ōe-ji: Hái-thê), which refer to the causeway, to memory the history, including tea, cigarettes and soy sauce.