Three Bridges over Dongting Lake
Yueyang, Central China
Provincial Highway Bridge
Construction: 1996-2000
S306 provincial highway
10km
Expressway bridge opens in 2018!
Another 6-lane 100km/h expressway bridge over Donating Lake
finished construction in Feb. 2018, completing the entire 3400km-long Hangzhou-Ruili Expressway
CHANGSHA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A new bridge over central China's Dongting Lake opened to traffic Thursday, marking the completion of a major east-west trunk line.
The 3,404 km-long Hangrui Highway links Hangzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province with Ruili City in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The bridge over Dongting Lake is a major part of the highway section in Hunan Province. The two-way six-lane bridge is 2,390 meters long, with a main span of 1,480 meters, making it the longest steel girder suspension bridge in China.
Dongting Lake, known as "the kidney of the Yangtze River," is the second-largest freshwater lake in China and one of the most important wetlands in China and the world.
Another one
World's longest heavy-duty railway under construction in Yueyang City, central China
Photo taken on Dec. 24, 2017 shows the construction site of a railway bridge over the Dongting Lake, the second-largest freshwater lake in China, in Yueyang City, central China's Hunan Province. The 1,290-meter bridge is an important part of the world's longest heavy-duty railway for coal transport. The 1,837-km railway is still under construction and is designed to link the coal-rich western Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region with Ji'an City in east China's Jiangxi Province. The railway line is scheduled for operation in 2020. (Xinhua/Zhu Xiang)
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