US EditionWorld’s Tallest Bridge Opens in China
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge sets world records for height and main span, cutting travel time from two hours to two minutes and boosting regional economic integration, officials said.
- On Sunday, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou province, Southwest China, opened to traffic, spanning 2,890 meters and rising 625 meters above the Beipan River.
- Liu Hao, chief engineer, said `The creation of the world's highest bridge was driven by engineering necessity rather than by a desire to set records`, due to Guizhou's rugged terrain, reducing travel time from two hours to two minutes.
- The project took more than three years and used satellite navigation, drones and smart monitoring to achieve millimetre-level precision, with massive steel reinforcements weighing 215 metric tons secured by the project engineering team.
- The opening put the expressway linking the Liuzhi special district and Anlong county into full operation, and transportation authorities predict the bridge will attract over one million visitors annually with a tourism zone planned.
- By setting two world records, Guizhou province now hosts nearly half of the world's 100 highest bridges and is known as 'the world's bridge museum.
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At 2,000 feet, world’s highest bridge opens in China
The planet’s highest bridge officially opened on Sunday in China, supplanting another bridge in the same province for the title. Chinese state media reports that the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge sits more than 2,000 feet above a river in China’s southern province of Guizhou. Measurements According to NBC News, the structure is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, which hovers above the Arkansas River at nearly 1,000 fee…
World's highest bridge opens to traffic
The world’s highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the same province. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625 metres (2 051 feet) above a river and vast gorge in the country’s rugged southern province of Guizhou, also home to the 565-metre Beipanjiang Bridge that is now the world’s second highest. Live drone f…
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is 625 meters high and overlooks a river and a wide gorge in the southern province of Guizhou, which also houses the 565 meters high Beipanjiang Bridge, which is now the second highest in the world
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