China completes the 'world's highest bridge'

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Would YOU dare to drive across it? China completes the 'world's highest bridge' standing 1,850 feet above the ground

• Engineers installed the last piece of deck on Beipanjiang Bridge in southern China on September 10
• The £88 million structure is set to open by the end of 2016 and is branded the world's highest bridge
• China is home to eight of the world's 10 highest bridges - most of them in remote parts of the country

By TRACY YOU FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 09:51 GMT, 12 September 2016 | UPDATED: 10:04 GMT, 12 September 2016

Chinese engineers have completed an impressive mountain overpass branded as the highest bridge in the world.

The enormous Beipanjiang Bridge, which is built at over 1,850 feet high, links two of China most remote provinces, Yunnan and Guizhou, according to People's Daily Online.

Engineers joined the last set of decks on September 10, marking the completion of the structure which has cost three years and 780 million RMB (£88 million) to build.

Now that's a highway: Chinese engineers have completed a mountain overpass at a whopping 1,854 feet high

We've made it: The last set of decks were joined on September 10, marking the completion of the bridge in southern China

Beipanjiang Bridge stands at a whopping 565 metres above the ground (1,854 feet), which is nearly twice the height of the 95-storey skyscraper, The Shard in London.

Named after Beipan River, the waterway it crosses, the incredible structure has a 720-metre-wide span (2,363 feet) and is a part of the Hangrui Highway, a 3,405-kilometre-long (2,115 miles) national motorway linking Hangzhou city in southern China with Ruili city on the China-Myanmar border.

The newly finished project is not to be confused with another Beipanjiang Bridge on Guanxing Highway, which stands at 363 metres high (1,200 feet) and opened in 2003.

Sky-high ambition: The £88 million structure, built at over 1,850 feet high, links two of China most remote provinces

Nearly done: The Beipanjiang Bridge took the Chinese bridge experts three years to build and was completed on Saturday

Remote location: The breath-taking structure is located on the border of Guizhou Province and Yunnan Province

The completion of the ambitious project means that eight of the world's 10 highest completed bridges are now located in China - almost all are situated in remote mountainous provinces.

The Beipanjiang Bridge is expected to open by the end of 2016. It overtook the previous record holder, Sidu River Bridge, situated in central China's Hubei Province.

The vertigo-inducing Sidu River Bridge, completed in 2009, is built between two mountains over a 1,627-foot-deep valley - though some media claim it's 1,830 feet high.

Besides Beipanjiang Bridge, Chinese engineers are also building what's set to be the world's second highest bridge, Jinshajiang Bridge.

The massive traffic link stands at an impressive 512 metres high (1,680 feet) and spans across the raging Jinsha River in southen China's Yunnan Province. Ground was broken last year and the bridge is expected to be completed in 2021.

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 HIGHEST BRIDGES (IN FEET)

1. Beipanjiang Bridge Duge, China 1,854 feet (2016)

2. Jinshajiang Bridge, China, 1,680 feet (2021)

3. Sidu River Bridge, China, 1,627 feet (2009)

4. Puli Bridge, China, 1,591 feet (2015)

5. Yachi Bridge, China, 1,444 feet (2016)

6. Qingshuihe Bridge, China, 1,332 feet (2016)

7. Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge, Papua New Guinea, 1,542 feet (2005)

8. Baluarte Bridge, Mexico, 1,280 feet (2013)

9. Balinghe Bridge, China, 1,214 feet (2009)

10. Beipanjiang Bridge Guanxing, China, 1,200 feet (2003)

Source: Highest bridges

World's highest bridge: Named after Beipan River, the incredible bridge has a 2,363ft span and is a part of Hangrui Highway

Important moment: The completion of Beipanjiang Bridge means that eight of the world's 10 highest bridges built in China

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[egodoc222]

Love you China

 

[TaiShang]

THE WORLD'S TOP 10 HIGHEST BRIDGES (IN FEET)

1. Beipanjiang Bridge Duge, China 1,854 feet (2016)

2. Jinshajiang Bridge, China, 1,680 feet (2021)

3. Sidu River Bridge, China, 1,627 feet (2009)

4. Puli Bridge, China, 1,591 feet (2015)

5. Yachi Bridge, China, 1,444 feet (2016)

6. Qingshuihe Bridge, China, 1,332 feet (2016)

7. Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge, Papua New Guinea, 1,542 feet (2005)

8. Baluarte Bridge, Mexico, 1,280 feet (2013)

9. Balinghe Bridge, China, 1,214 feet (2009)

10. Beipanjiang Bridge Guanxing, China, 1,200 feet (2003)

The New Normal.

 

[Beast]

Another technology feat.

 

[Nilgiri]

@AndrewJin @Chinese Bamboo

Awesome!

 

[Dungeness]

I guess "Discovery Channel" is tired of coming to China to shoot yet one more episode of "The Mega Engineering Project".

 

[Clutch]

Amazing engineering feats from china.

A sign of coming of age.

 

[~Phoenix~]

Congrats and keep it up,China!

 

[Anjo]

Impressive!

 

[AndrewJin]

What a shame!!!
So, after it is officially inaugurated late this year, the bridge in my province won't be called the highest bridge of the world? How about the monument??? Shall we change the words on the monument?


World's highest bridge!
And world's first to use rocket to send the first pilot line across the gorge!

With a roadway 1,627 feet (496 mtrs) above the water, the Siduhe River bridge is the latest Chinese champ to take the record as the highest bridge in the world. Opened on November 15th, 2009, it is the 3rd Chinese bridge in less than a decade to claim the title of “World’s Highest Bridge” and is a symbol of just how fast and how far China’s highway infrastructure has come in such a short period of time.

Located about 50 miles (80 km) south of the famous 3 Gorges region of the Yangtze River in China’s mountainous Hubei Province, the Siduhe suspension bridge is just one of several amazing structures on the last 300 mile (483 km) link of the 1,350 mile (2,175 km) long West Hurong highway that now connects Shanghai on the Pacific coast with the cities of Chongqing and Chengdu in the west.

The 8 highest of China’s many high bridges were all built after 2000 and are located primarily in the 3 western Provinces of Guizhou, Hubei and Chongqing. All 8 of these bridges exceed 900 feet (274 meters) in height and rank among the world’s 12 highest while four have held the world record for highest road or rail bridge. Even more amazing, 6 of these bridges are higher than Colorado’s Royal Gorge, the former world’s highest bridge from 1929 to 2001.

It would only be appropriate that the highest bridge in the world is also on the greatest bridge “high-way” in the world. Stretching 300 miles (483 km) from Yichang and the 3 Gorges dam in the east to the city of Zhongxian in the west, this 4-lane engineering marvel has more than half a dozen spectacular bridges that exceed 500 feet (150 meters) in height including Zhijinghe, the highest roadway arch bridge in the world. This more direct route bypasses one of the toughest and most mountainous stretches of the Yangtze River. What once took more than a day of travel on dangerous mountain roads or a Yangtze river boat can now be safely traversed in 5 hours.

The success of the route also owes as much to the construction of the numerous tunnels that punch through dozens of towering peaks that blocked the highway’s path. One of the more impressive of these tunnels leads to the east end of the Siduhe bridge and makes for one of the world’s more dramatic bridge introductions.

With a span of 2,952 feet (900 mtrs), Siduhe bridge is a fairly typical long span Chinese suspension bridge with H-frame concrete towers, a truss stiffened road deck and unsuspended side spans. One aspect of its construction that was not so ordinary relates to its extreme height. Due to the remote, inaccessible river canyon, the engineers decided to experiment and instead of using a blimp or helicopter to drag the first pilot line across the gorge, they would use a rocket. Over 3,281 feet (1000 meter) of tether was attached to the back end of a 4 foot (1.5 mtr) long rocket and blasted across the deep river gorge. Also unusual is the termination of the east end bridge cables into a long tunnel foundation deep under the steep slope of the mountain.

Siduhe is so high that its closest rival in Mexico is over 100 meters lower. It is 672 feet (205 meters) higher than Colorado’s Royal Gorge bridge. The structure also has the unique distinction of being the only bridge in the world where a person falling from the deck can reach terminal velocity - the speed at which a falling object will no longer accelerate. With so many unprecedented superlatives, the Siduhe River bridge is unlikely to lose its lofty height record for sometime to come.




We are building a tourist site....
What should it be called?
Former world's highest bridge?
Or highest bridge in the province of Hubei?

 

[AndrewJin]

Video filmed in 2015
Under Construction

 

[Jlaw]

I guess "Discovery Channel" is tired of coming to China to shoot yet one more episode of "The Mega Engineering Project".

Too many mega projects from China to add

 

[T-Rex]

What a shame!!!
So, after it is officially inaugurated late this year, the bridge in my province won't be called the highest bridge of the world? How about the monument??? Shall we change the words on the monument?


World's highest bridge!
And world's first to use rocket to send the first pilot line across the gorge!
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With a roadway 1,627 feet (496 mtrs) above the water, the Siduhe River bridge is the latest Chinese champ to take the record as the highest bridge in the world. Opened on November 15th, 2009, it is the 3rd Chinese bridge in less than a decade to claim the title of “World’s Highest Bridge” and is a symbol of just how fast and how far China’s highway infrastructure has come in such a short period of time.

Located about 50 miles (80 km) south of the famous 3 Gorges region of the Yangtze River in China’s mountainous Hubei Province, the Siduhe suspension bridge is just one of several amazing structures on the last 300 mile (483 km) link of the 1,350 mile (2,175 km) long West Hurong highway that now connects Shanghai on the Pacific coast with the cities of Chongqing and Chengdu in the west.

The 8 highest of China’s many high bridges were all built after 2000 and are located primarily in the 3 western Provinces of Guizhou, Hubei and Chongqing. All 8 of these bridges exceed 900 feet (274 meters) in height and rank among the world’s 12 highest while four have held the world record for highest road or rail bridge. Even more amazing, 6 of these bridges are higher than Colorado’s Royal Gorge, the former world’s highest bridge from 1929 to 2001.

It would only be appropriate that the highest bridge in the world is also on the greatest bridge “high-way” in the world. Stretching 300 miles (483 km) from Yichang and the 3 Gorges dam in the east to the city of Zhongxian in the west, this 4-lane engineering marvel has more than half a dozen spectacular bridges that exceed 500 feet (150 meters) in height including Zhijinghe, the highest roadway arch bridge in the world. This more direct route bypasses one of the toughest and most mountainous stretches of the Yangtze River. What once took more than a day of travel on dangerous mountain roads or a Yangtze river boat can now be safely traversed in 5 hours.

The success of the route also owes as much to the construction of the numerous tunnels that punch through dozens of towering peaks that blocked the highway’s path. One of the more impressive of these tunnels leads to the east end of the Siduhe bridge and makes for one of the world’s more dramatic bridge introductions.

With a span of 2,952 feet (900 mtrs), Siduhe bridge is a fairly typical long span Chinese suspension bridge with H-frame concrete towers, a truss stiffened road deck and unsuspended side spans. One aspect of its construction that was not so ordinary relates to its extreme height. Due to the remote, inaccessible river canyon, the engineers decided to experiment and instead of using a blimp or helicopter to drag the first pilot line across the gorge, they would use a rocket. Over 3,281 feet (1000 meter) of tether was attached to the back end of a 4 foot (1.5 mtr) long rocket and blasted across the deep river gorge. Also unusual is the termination of the east end bridge cables into a long tunnel foundation deep under the steep slope of the mountain.

Siduhe is so high that its closest rival in Mexico is over 100 meters lower. It is 672 feet (205 meters) higher than Colorado’s Royal Gorge bridge. The structure also has the unique distinction of being the only bridge in the world where a person falling from the deck can reach terminal velocity - the speed at which a falling object will no longer accelerate. With so many unprecedented superlatives, the Siduhe River bridge is unlikely to lose its lofty height record for sometime to come.




We are building a tourist site....
What should it be called?
Former world's highest bridge?
Or highest bridge in the province of Hubei?

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Another engineering marvel by China! It's simply awesome! I would love to visit these sites with my family.

 

[AndrewJin]

Another engineering marvel by China! It's simply awesome! I would love to visit these sites with my family.

WELCOME!
What I'd like to see is tourism and poverty alleviation are closely integrated!

Tourism boom during the Mid-Autumn Festival
A project of "Precision Poverty Alleviation" : Chishuihe Valley Tourist Highway

 

[ahojunk]

I guess "Discovery Channel" is tired of coming to China to shoot yet one more episode of "The Mega Engineering Project".

Too many mega projects from China to add

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What are you guys talking about?

If I am the producer of "The Mega Engineering Project", I would be extremely please that I have enough material to produce TV shows for the next few years. In other words, my job is secure at least for the next few years .