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Construction was completed in 2010 and the bridge opened in 2011. Employing 10,000 people, the project took four years and cost about $8.5 billion. [ 1 ] The bridge currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge in the world in any category as of June 2011 [update] .
Image N° Name Longest span (metres) Total Length (metres) Type Carries Cross Year opened Location Province 1: Xihoumen Bridge: 1650: 5452: Suspension bridge
This list of bridges in China includes notable bridges. 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 bridge, which opened on 29 April 2009, is the world's longest through arch bridge. [2] The continuous steel truss arch bridge with tie girders has a height of 142 m (466 ft) from middle supports to arch top, main span of 552 m (1,811 ft) and a total length of 1,741 m (5,712 ft). It carries six lanes of traffic with a pedestrian walkway on ...
The bridge spans the canyon between two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in the northwest of Hunan province. It is designed to carry up to 800 visitors at a time. The bridge was designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan. [2] To build the bridge, engineers erected four support pillars on the edges of the walls of the canyon.
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.
Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is a 26.7 km (16.6 mi) long roadway bridge in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, which is part of the 41.58 km (25.84 mi) Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project. [1] The longest continuous segment of the bridge is 25.9 km (16.1 mi), [ 3 ] making it one of the longest bridges in the world .
Tianjin Grand Bridge (Langfang–Qingxian viaduct) (Chinese: 天津特大桥) is a railway viaduct bridge that runs between Langfang and Qingxian, part of the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. [1] It is one of the longest bridges in the world with a total length of about 113.7 kilometers (70.6 mi). It was completed in 2010 and opened in 2011.