China Expressways, Highways: News & Discussions

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Wujiang River
Museum of Bridges

 

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Highest Bridges in Guizhou

1,Yachihe Bridge,800m span,434m high cable-stayed bridge

http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Yachi_Bridge

2,Beipanjiang Bridge Duge,720m span,565m high cable-stayed bridge:

http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beipanjiang_Bridge_Duge

3,Qingshuihe Bridge,1130m span,406m high suspension bridge

http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Qingshuihe_Bridge

4,Liuguanghe Bridge Xiqian,580m span,374m high cable-stayed bridge

http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Liuguanghe_Bridge_Xiqian

There are hundreds of high bridges(more than 100m from deck to water) in Guizhou province,16 of them more than 300m high(including under construction).

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[JSCh]

China's strongest earthquake-resistant bridge to be completed this year
2018-09-14 15:58:07 Ecns.cn Editor :Mo Hong'e

A view of the Puqian Bridge under construction in South China's Hainan Province, Sept. 14, 2018. Construction of the cross-sea bridge, scheduled for completion at the end of 2018, will cut the trip from Wenchang City to Haikou City from 90 minutes to about 20 minutes. Spanning a geological fault line, it’s being built to the highest standard of earthquake resistance at an investment of 3.01 billion yuan ($440 million). The 5.6-km-long bridge is expected to promote economic growth in the northern part of Hainan Province. (Photo: China News Service/Luo Yunfei)

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Puqian Bridge under construction in south China's Hainan
Source: Xinhua| 2018-11-03 22:22:47|Editor: Xiaoxia


Aerial photo taken on Nov. 3, 2018 shows Puqian Bridge under construction in south China's Hainan Province. The closure of the main bridge of Puqian Bridge spanning a geological fault line was finished on Saturday. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)

 

[JSCh]

Engineering milestone! Another mega bridge finishes closure in South China
New China TV
Published on Oct 6, 2018

A 1,155-m-long bridge has recently completed closure in south China's Guangxi. With a lifting weight equivalent to 1,100 adult elephants at the same time, it's the heaviest lifting project in the world to date.

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The middle arch is lifted in May.

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Aerial view of Guantang bridge in Liuzhou, South China's Guangxi
Xinhua | Updated: 2018-11-28 09:14

Aerial photo taken on Nov 27, 2018 shows the Guantang Bridge in Liuzhou, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The bridge, spanning over a distance of 457 meters, opened to traffic on Tuesday. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Gallery: Beijing’s New Airport Expressway Near Completion

 

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Puqian Bridge under construction in south China's Hainan
Source: Xinhua| 2018-11-03 22:22:47|Editor: Xiaoxia


Aerial photo taken on Nov. 3, 2018 shows Puqian Bridge under construction in south China's Hainan Province. The closure of the main bridge of Puqian Bridge spanning a geological fault line was finished on Saturday. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)

Charming!
Is that a new expressway?
Hainan Province needs more expressways!

 

[JSCh]

New record! Four bridges rotate simultaneously above busy rail line
New China TV
Published on Dec 8, 2018

New record! Four bridges linked to Beijing's new airport are rotated in synchronization with one another above a busy railway line.

 

[JSCh]

Winding road in China has staggering 68 hairpin turns
CGTN
Published on Dec 20, 2018

Spectacular footage shows the winding mountain road with 68 turns stretches 6.3 kilometers in Yiliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, also known as the "wonder in the world history of construction." The road was built in 1995 to connect two villages nearby to the outside of the world.

 

[JSCh]

China overfulfills 2018 target for rural road renovation
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-23 12:37:48|Editor: mmm


BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- China has overfulfilled its target for renovating rural roads this year, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport.

The ministry has so far built and renovated 250,000 km of rural highways this year, 50,000 km more than its plan for the year, spokesperson Wu Chungeng told a news conference Friday.

Meanwhile, bus services have been expanded to over 7,000 more villages in China, exceeding the annual target of 5,000 more villages.

Wu said the country has also built and renovated 1,000 service facilities for crucial national and provincial highways, reduced administrative barriers, and established online platforms for administrative licensing in 2018.

The ministry will introduce more measures in 2019 to accelerate transport construction and improve people's livelihoods, Wu said.

 

[JSCh]

Three-story highway bridge becomes latest hot spot in NW China
2018-12-27 13:17 GMT+8

A three-story highway bridge built along the 1,370-meter-high Tianlong Mountain in Taiyuan, northwest China's Shanxi Province, has become the city's latest hot spot as many residents drive to the mountain to see the spectacular site and share its pictures on social media. /VCG Photo

 

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Taihang Mountain expressway starts operation
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-29 07:17:26|Editor: Yang Yi


The Taihang Mountain expressway linking Hebei with Beijing started operation Friday. The expressway, with a total length of 650 km, connects Hebei's mountainous region with the capital and its neighboring provinces including Shanxi and Henan, benefiting a total of 7.4 million people living in the mountainous areas. (Xinhua/Yang Shiyao)

 

[JSCh]

Public & Media Frenzy for Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Reopening
By Renee Gray Beaumont and Frank Hossack
29th December 2018

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Never has a collection of concrete and steel garnered so much attention. For the last 3 days, a carnival-like atmosphere has been witnessed on the deck of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, as authorities opened up the refurbished national monument for pedestrians only, ahead of today’s reopening for vehicles.

Such an atmosphere of dance, celebration and pilgrimage would more befit the Second Coming or an alien invasion, hardly that for the reopening of a piece of transportation infrastructure. Yet, it provides excellent evidence of the place that bridge holds in the heart of local people, and many a Chinese person nationwide too.

And explanation too. Its picture was hung in the offices and hotel lobbies of a bygone era, and now, in 2018, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge reemerges as not only an icon for Nanjing but once again for the country at large, representing everything about early Communist Party achievements and industrial power.

The scale of public enthusiasm for the “People’s Bridge” has also been embraced by local and national media, with a flood of coverage that culminated today, after the bridge’s much-needed 27 months of renovation. To name but two, bridge memes have been shared widely on social media, while news portal ECNS has produced an excellent gallery created by photographers Liu Xiaoguang and Xue Xiaohong, who visited the bridge every 3 or 4 days to record for posterity the 2-year-plus-long renovation.

Then there was the stunt in which the numbers 1968-2018 were formed on the bridge, by people who share their birthday with the bridge, and some who even participated in its construction.

Away from its restoration, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has never been far from the headlines. Movies and books have been written about this magnificent structure; documentaries and a GQ magazine feature made about its darker side and the heroes that roam upon it. The multi-year documentary project “Angel of Nanjing”, that was shot by New York film makers Jordan Horowitz and Frank Ferendo, spotlights one local man, Chen Si who spends his days convincing people not to leap to their deaths from the world’s top suicide location; it has been reported he has saved over 300 lives.

As to the bridge’s refurbishment itself, it has entailed complete repairs of the approaches, together with a thorough makeover that includes the removing of 50 years of pollution to restore the iconic structure’s former luster, plus the addition of pedestrian guardrails, together with brighter, intelligent and energy-saving lighting and drainage system, plus finally an enhanced suicide fence, where the railway lines pass under the bridge deck.

According to Xinhua News, the bill for the bridge’s renovation came to ¥1.14 billion, while experts say the bridge is now expected to last for another 50 years.

Like other great structures in Nanjing, the People’s Bridge has literally stood the test of time; trucks of the revolution passed atop it, then the trucks of development and industry trundled over. Today, at midday, the electric cars of e-commerce were among the first vehicles to ascend the all-new Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, 50 years to the day after it first opened.


Public & Media Frenzy for Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Reopening | The Nanjinger

 

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China's first cross-sea rail-road bridge takes shape
(Chinanews.com) 13:30, November 17, 2017

The pile foundation of total of 1,895 support pillars of Pingtan Haixia Rail-Road Bridge, China's first cross-sea rail-road bridge has been completed on Nov 16. The construction will go above ground after the underwater work has finished. The bridge has two layers, with the upper level carrying a six-lane highway and the lower level bearing a double-track railway. The 16.3-km-long bridge connects Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, with the island city of Pingtan off the coast of the Taiwan Strait. [Photo/chinanews.com]

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China's first highway-railway cross-sea bridge connected in east China
CGTN
Published on Dec 28, 2018

The first navigable span of China's first highway-railway cross-sea bridge has officially been linked up. The navigation span, one of the three navigable spans of the Pingtan Strait Bridge, is located in Pingtan's Dalian Island and Xiaolian Island waterway. A 470-ton steel truss beam was hoisted to the connection position about 75 meters above the sea surface and fixed with drift pins, successfully completing the closure. The Pingtan Strait Bridge is expected to be completed in 2019.

 

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Xinhua Headlines: China's landmark Yangtze River bridge reopens to traffic
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-29 20:26:00|Editor: Xiang Bo

Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2018 shows vehicles running on the renovated Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Li Bo)

NANJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's first domestically-designed modern bridge over the Yangtze, the country's longest river, a national landmark, reopened to road traffic Saturday after a 26-month renovation.

As the first double-decked road-rail truss bridge designed by China, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in the eastern city of Nanjing first opened to traffic on the same day 50 years ago.

During the renovation, the highway traffic on the upper deck, which is 4,589 meters long and 15 meters wide, was suspended while the railway on the lower deck, which is 6,772 meters long and 14 meters wide, was not disturbed.

In the three days before the official reopening, the bridge was opened to the public, attracting 200,000 visitors.

"We were so proud of the bridge when it was built," Nanjing citizen Liu Yong said. "The bridge displays Chinese people's innovative spirit, which should be inherited by the younger generations."

"The bridge is a collective memory for generations in Nanjing and other parts of the country as a symbol of technological achievement, the spirit of teamwork and a sense of pride," said Lu Andong, a professor with the school of architecture and urban planning at Nanjing University.

SYMBOL OF SELF-RELIANCE

"For most Nanjingers, the bridge is not only infrastructure but a symbol of the nation's self-reliant spirit," said Luo Jian, who is the same age as the bridge and has been its maintainer since 1985.

Luo's father Luo Binfeng, 83, was a constructor and maintainer of the bridge. After taking part in the construction of China's first Yangtze River bridge in Wuhan, he joined the building of the one in Nanjing in 1959, which was then an urgent aspiration of the people and nation.

"It was no easier than the first due to difficult geological, economic, and technological situations," said the father. An American bridge engineer asserted in 1937 that it was impossible to build a Yangtze River bridge in Nanjing for hydrological complexity and poor geological conditions.

Even so, construction of the bridge officially started in 1960, with no foreign experts' help, relying solely on China's own bridge construction experience and firm determination in self-efforts.

Workers and engineers spared no efforts to ensure construction quality, with the bridge's height and depth once being regarded as engineering miracles. The bridge also made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest bridge with dual highway and railway functions.

However, after 48 years' in service, there were large cracks on the cement road surface, and ornamentations and drains need to be renovated as well.

HIGH-TECH INNOVATION

To enhance the safety and durability, China's top planning agency approved the repairs in 2016.

The renovation, with an investment of 1.14 billion yuan (166 million U.S. dollars), has replaced the concrete highway bridge deck with a lighter and more smooth steel deck. The sidewalks are also wider.

"Although renovating is not as difficult as the building half a century ago, a lot of advanced technologies were used," said Chun Qing, an associate professor from the school of architecture in Southeast University.

The bridge is equipped with fiber optic sensors, similar to medical cardiograms, to help dynamically monitor its structural health.

"We have put about 100 sensors to monitor the real-time damages to the bridge," said Zhang Jian, a professor from the School of Civil Engineering in Southeast University.

To keep the original appearance, the renovation team also used 3D scanning technology to restore one missing iron relief damaged by a vehicle crash in 1991.

MAJOR PASSAGE

The bridge, which connects the No. 104 and No. 312 national highways, was the first major cross-river passage to help connect Beijing, the national capital, and Shanghai, the business and financial center.

With decades in service, the bridge is already a witness to the technological advancement of the railways and economic development of the city and even the nation.

"The designed speed of the railway was 60 kph at first and now trains run up to 140 kph," said Luo Jian, adding the daily road traffic flow had reached between 80,000 and 90,000 vehicles before the renovation, about ten times the designed flow.

The improved transport benefits Jiangsu's first National New Area, set up on the north side of the bridge in 2015 and home to high-tech firms in new materials, biological medicine, and intelligent manufacturing.

To cope with rising demand for cross-river road transport as well as high-speed railway lines, Nanjing has built another four bridges over the river with the sixth under construction. High-speed trains ran across the bridges up to 300 kph.

"The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, however, will continue to be a major passage in the next century, expecting to connect a number of high-speed railways on both sides of the river," said Yang Tao, president of the Institute for Urban and Transportation Planning and Design in Nanjing.

"With repairs and maintenance, the bridge is expected to be in safe operation for another 100 years," said Guo Jian, deputy director of the Center of Public Project Construction in Nanjing.

(Video reporters: Liu Zhaoquan, Wu Xinsheng, Li Yuze; Video editor: Lin Lin)

 

[JSCh]

Construction of the Longest Double Deck Suspension Bridge in The World
Completion: 2020
Wuhan City, Central China
Investment: 8 billion yuan

Yangsigang Yangtze River bridge, main span 1700 meters
Double deck with 12 lanes(6 lanes on the upper deck, 6 lanes on the lower deck),
will become the longest double deck suspension bridge in the world in 2020.
Located in Wuhan city,Hubei province,near
N30.503022, E114.268698 :

Mega project! Main sections of world's longest double-deck suspension bridge connected in C China
New China TV
Published on Dec 29, 2018

Mega project! Chinese engineers have completed the main sections of the world's longest double-deck suspension bridge.