The Huangpu River Pedestrian Tunnel, China's first river pedestrian tunnel with the length of 646.70 meter, located between the Nanjing East Road Bund in Puxi and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Pudong Lujiazui, is scheduled to be completed on October 1st, 1999 and to be officially put into operation in April 18, 2000. Tunnel visitors will be transported in the automatic, unmanned, cable-towed, and closed-type carriages of the advanced technology of the nineties. It takes about 2.5 to 5 minutes to make a one-way ride across the River. At its maximum handling capacity it can transport 5,280 persons per hour. Modern science and high technologies will be employed to make use of the inside space of the tunnel, showing various pictures, scenes, and background music reflecting people, history, culture, science and technology, and landscapes, to make the cross-river ride extremely interesting, amusing, and exciting, and to leave riders a nice memory of the underground ride.