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The bridge is the 11th longest span in the world and the sixth largest in China. [3] [4] The bridge has renamed on 20 December 2019. [5] Jiangsu province's first suspension bridge, it lies 10 km downstream of the second Yangtze River Bridge.
The Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge is a suspension bridge in Wuhan, Hubei, China. It opened to traffic on October 8, 2019 and is the third longest suspension bridge span in the world and overall the longest in China. The bridge spans 1,700 metres (5,577.4 feet; 1.1 miles) across the Yangtze River.
Chinese Bridge (Chinese: 汉语桥) is a contest for foreign students on their mastery of the Chinese language, promoted by the Chinese National Hanban and established as a plan to introduce Chinese to the world. Since it began in 2002, more than 600 contestants from over 147 countries throughout the world have participated in the annually-held ...
China has a long history in bridge construction. The oldest bridge still in existence in China is the Anji Bridge, constructed during the years between 595 and 605. During the infrastructure boom of the past two decades, bridge-building has proceeded at a rapid pace on a vast scale.
The Kaiyuan Changhong Bridge is a large-span, single-hole, hollow-arch stone bridge with open shoulders, across the Nanpan River in an east–west orientation. The bridge is 171 meters in length, 30 meters in height, has a clear width of 8.5 meters, and features a major span of 113 meters.
In 2016, there were some repairs on the route, but trading had not been restored to previous levels. First, it was replaced by a temporary bridge. Chinese companies then built a new, reportedly 110 m (360 ft) long and significantly wider, twin-pier reinforced concrete girder bridge alongside it, which opened in June 2019. [4] [5]
However, in February 2017, Public Construction Commission Minister Wu Hong-mo requested the bridge completion date to be moved earlier to the end of 2019. [6] In August 2019, the last pile of the bridge was installed and was expected to be completed by mid-2021. The Kinmen Bridge was opened to the public on 30 October 2022. [7] [8]
The bridge has two main spans of 336 m (1,102 ft) it is one of the largest arch bridges in the world. [2] It carries six tracks: two for the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway [ 3 ] (opened on 30 June 2011), two for the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway (opened on 22 January 2011) and two for line S3 of the Nanjing Metro (opened ...