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5 years' hard work
Finally, Baoshan-Tengchong Expressway opens!

Longjiang Bridge, dubbed as "the bridge in the cloud"
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Baoshan-Tengchong Expressway & Longjiang Expressway Bridge

Features
63.8km, province-level expressway
Standardised 4-lanes controlled-access
designed speed: 80km/h
Investment: 6.3 billion yuan

Difficulty: It transverses 4km high Gaoligong Mountains
Extensive use of drones

Purpose
It forms one section of the China-Burma-India international corridor.
It connects Tengchong County to the G56 National Expressway (Hangzhou-Ruili)
Key project of poverty-reduction initiatives in the minorities-dominated Western Yunnan Province.

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Longjiang Bridge
Span: 1196m
Length: 2471m
Height: 280m
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13th 5-year plan
150km long pronvicial expressway linking Tengchong County and Ruili City's 3 counties
Estimated to start construction within 1-2 years
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Implication on local tourism

Get ready for people mountain people sea:enjoy:
Ancients towns, springs, volcanos, snowy mountains, minority culture
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This is newest video of Longjiang Expressway Bridge opened 3 months ago

Longjiang Bridge on S10 Provincial Expressway
Yunnan Province, Southwest China

dubbed as "the bridge in the cloud"



Longjiang Bridge 龙江大桥
Wuhexiang, Yunnan, China
958 feet high / 292 meters high
3,924 foot span / 1,196 meter span

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

The Longjiang River is the largest obstacle along the S10 Baoteng spur expressway that branches off from the G56 to the city of Tengchong in western Yunnan Province. To get across the 300 meter deep river gorge, the engineers have designed the longest span high bridge on earth with a tower to tower distance of 3,924 feet (1,196 meters) - nearly as long as the Golden Gate Bridge. Longjiang surpassed the distance of both Aizhai and Balinghe Bridges which previously held the long span record honors among the world's highest bridges.

The Longjiang crossing is also unique among China's big mountain suspension bridges with a thin steel box girder deck that breaks away from the traditional truss deck used on earlier bridges like Siduhe, Balinghe, Lishuihe and Aizhai. Yunnan's Puli Bridge also has a steel box deck. The tallest tower on Longjiang Bridge measures 167 meters in height.

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The inauguration day
First standard expressway in the minority-dominated Tengchong County

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We have watched so many videos about some of the highest bridges in Guizhou Province.
Now let's have a look at the city of Liupanshui, dubbed as the “capital of high bridges".
A lot of world's highest bridges are actually located in the countryside of this city.

Liupanshui City
Guizhou Province, Southwest China


Minghu National Wetland Park
As"capital of high bridges", Liupanshui city located on top of the mountains with more than 1900 meters above the sea, surrounded by gorges more than 1000m deep beneath city center's elevation. At the middle of the city, there are a wetland park built in 2012.


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Liupanshui Factsheet

Administrative divisions
2 urban districts and 2 counties
Population: 2.83 million
Minority population: 25.8%
Poverty-reduction assitance city: Dalian City ($17800 per capita GDP)
GDP per capita: $6691
GDP growth: 14.64% (H1 2016)
High-speed Railway: Panxian Station on Shanghai-Kunming HSR, opened in late 2016

Liupanshui City's location in Southwest China
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Expressway network
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We have watched so many videos about some of the highest bridges in Guizhou Province.
Now let's have a look at the city of Liupanshui, dubbed as the “capital of high bridges".
A lot of world's highest bridges are actually located in the countryside of this city.

Liupanshui City
Guizhou Province, Southwest China


Minghu National Wetland Park
As"capital of high bridges", Liupanshui city located on top of the mountains with more than 1900 meters above the sea, surrounded by gorges more than 1000m deep beneath city center's elevation. At the middle of the city, there are a wetland park built in 2012.


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Liupanshui Factsheet

Administrative divisions
2 urban districts and 2 counties
Population: 2.83 million
Minority population: 25.8%
Poverty-reduction assitance city: Dalian City ($17800 per capita GDP)
GDP per capita: $6691
GDP growth: 14.64% (H1 2016)
High-speed Railway: Panxian Station on Shanghai-Kunming HSR, opened in late 2016

Liupanshui City's location in Southwest China
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Expressway network
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Southern and Western parts of China sure have plenty of fabulous sceneries with endless of (snow)mountains and blue skies :D
 
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We have watched so many videos about some of the highest bridges in Guizhou Province.
Now let's have a look at the city of Liupanshui, dubbed as the “capital of high bridges".
A lot of world's highest bridges are actually located in the countryside of this city.

Liupanshui City
Guizhou Province, Southwest China


Minghu National Wetland Park
As"capital of high bridges", Liupanshui city located on top of the mountains with more than 1900 meters above the sea, surrounded by gorges more than 1000m deep beneath city center's elevation. At the middle of the city, there are a wetland park built in 2012.


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Liupanshui Factsheet

Administrative divisions
2 urban districts and 2 counties
Population: 2.83 million
Minority population: 25.8%
Poverty-reduction assitance city: Dalian City ($17800 per capita GDP)
GDP per capita: $6691
GDP growth: 14.64% (H1 2016)
High-speed Railway: Panxian Station on Shanghai-Kunming HSR, opened in late 2016

Liupanshui City's location in Southwest China
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Expressway network
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Excellent....keep sharing, man :china:
 
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A small village of Liupanshui City and Qingshui Bridge
Guizhou Province, Southwest China


A drone & bridge fan tried to make a drone video about Qingshui Bridge in rural Guizhou Province.
He accidentally stepped into a small village on top of a mountain. No tourists have ever entered that village before.
This village may not seem wealthy or fancy like other tourist villages, but he described it as the most beautiful village he has ever visited, as it is tourism-free and local villagers are the most hospitable. They offered him the best food they could offer! The surrounding rice terrace and deep valley are simply gorgeous.

Qingshui bridge located in Shuicheng county of Liupanshui City, western Guizhou, is a part of Shuihuang highway (from Shuicheng to Huangguoshu). With a span of 150m span and a height of 147m, if it is not located in China, the bridge will join Top 50 highest bridges and Top 10 highest archs in the(outside China) world. This bridge crosses a very narrow gorge surrounded by limestone mountains. Inside the gorge, we can see from this video there are 2 creeks coming from different directions.

(compiled by Chinese and English description written by the video uploader)



Qingshui Bridge 清水大桥 (2003)
Panlongxiang, Guizhou, China
482 feet high / 147 meters high
(492) foot span / (150) meter span

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

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