Focus | China completes main structure of world's tallest bridge
Xinhua
17 Jan 2025, 17:15 GMT+10
(250117) -- ZHENFENG, Jan. 17, 2025 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 17, 2025 shows a view of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China's Guizhou Province. China on Friday finished the construction of the main structure of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in its southwestern Guizhou Province, which is set to become the world's tallest bridge.
A project of Guizhou Transportation Investment Group Co., Ltd., the suspension bridge has a vertical height of 625 meters from the bridge deck down to the river surface.
The 2,890-meter bridge, with a span of 1,420 meters, is also the world's largest span bridge to be built in a mountainous area. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
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