Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

Telecommunications cables on Yangshan Island have been laid underground or wend their way along the rocks to enable the telecom network to cover the whole port without the erection of one single lamp-post, thus avoiding eyesores on the local landscape.
The port, officially named Yangshan Deep-Water Port, will open on Thursday.
"Transmission lines would ruin the look of the port and be prone to damage in stormy weather, which is frequent on the island," chief director Gui Mo of the port authority pointed out.
"For those reasons, we decided to lay all the optical fibers and cables underground," he said.
At places where the cables have to bypass rock, technicians from Shanghai Mobile Telecom Corp have cut pipelines into the surface of the hard granite, Gui said.
Such pipelines have also been created along the two-arch tunnel which forms the entrance to the island.
"Usually, pipelines for cables and fibers are put under the tunnel, but in this case that method was deemed unsuitable. If there were a problem with the cables, the tunnel would have to be closed for repairs, a nightmare for traffic," Gui explained.
In consideration of this, workers built a mini-tunnel alongside the major one to house the cable lines.