GLOBALink | China completes main structure of world's tallest bridge
Xinhua
17 Jan 2025, 18:15 GMT+10
ZHENFENG, Jan. 17, (Xinhua) -- 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.
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