China Expressways, Highways: News & Discussions

[AndrewJin]

China's south-to-north water diversion project
2016-12-07 09:27 | Xinhua | Editor:Li Yan

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Aerial photo taken on Nov. 30, 2016 shows the main canal of the central route of China's south-to-north water diversion project crossing through the Jiaozuo-Liuzhou Railway in central China's Henan Province. The central route of the project has supplied water to about 42 million people since December of 2014. A total of 6.09 billion cubic meters of water has been delivered to Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and the provinces of Hebei and Henan. (Photo/Xinhua)


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Aerial photo taken on Nov. 30, 2016 shows the Songgang wharf of Danjiangkou Reservoir in Xichuan County, central China's Henan Province. The central route of China's south-to-north water diversion project has supplied water to about 42 million people since December of 2014. A total of 6.09 billion cubic meters of water has been delivered to Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and the provinces of Hebei and Henan. (Photo/Xinhua)


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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 1, 2016 shows the main canal of the central route of China's south-to-north water diversion project crossing through the city of Jiaozuo, central China's Henan Province. The central route of the project has supplied water to about 42 million people since December of 2014. A total of 6.09 billion cubic meters of water has been delivered to Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and the provinces of Hebei and Henan. (Photo/Xinhua)


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Aerial photo taken on Nov. 30, 2016 shows the Taocha Canal Headworks of the central route of China's south-to-north water diversion project in Xichuan County, central China's Henan Province. The central route of the project has supplied water to about 42 million people since December of 2014. A total of 6.09 billion cubic meters of water has been delivered to Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and the provinces of Hebei and Henan. (Photo/Xinhua)


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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 1, 2016 shows the Shahe aqueduct of the central route of China's south-to-north water diversion project, central China's Henan Province. The central route of the project has supplied water to about 42 million people since December of 2014. A total of 6.09 billion cubic meters of water has been delivered to Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and the provinces of Hebei and Henan. (Photo/Xinhua)


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Aerial photo taken on Dec. 6, 2016 shows the project of crossing the Yellow River in the central route of China's south-to-north water diversion project, central China's Henan Province. The central route of the project has supplied water to about 42 million people since December of 2014. A total of 6.09 billion cubic meters of water has been delivered to Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and the provinces of Hebei and Henan. (Photo/Xinhua)

The main water source of south-to-north water diversion project is in my province

Aerial View of Danjiangkou Reservoir

We have excessive water!

 

[ahojunk]

Zhanang Bridge across Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet
2016-12-12 16:03 | Xinhua | Editor:Xu Shanshan

Dec. 11, 2016. The Zhanang Bridge across the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County of Shannan, Tibet Region. The 5.7-km-long bridge opened to traffic in 2015. (Photo:Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

- Magnificent, look at how straight the bridge is!

Dec. 11, 2016. The Zhanang Bridge across the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County of Shannan, Tibet Region. The 5.7-km-long bridge opened to traffic in 2015. (Photo:Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

Dec. 11, 2016. The Zhanang Bridge across the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County of Shannan, Tibet Region. The 5.7-km-long bridge opened to traffic in 2015. (Photo:Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

Dec. 11, 2016. The Zhanang Bridge across the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County of Shannan, Tibet Region. The 5.7-km-long bridge opened to traffic in 2015. (Photo:Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

- Just look at this engineering marvel traversing the difficult terrain. Beautiful!

Dec. 11, 2016. The Zhanang Bridge across the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County of Shannan, Tibet Region. The 5.7-km-long bridge opened to traffic in 2015. (Photo:Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

 

[beijingwalker]

China To Build Bridges That 'Vanish' Into The Mountainous Landscape

 

[TaiShang]

Aerial view of triple-loop spiral bridge in Chongqing
(CRI Online) 09:19, December 18, 2016


A triple-loop spiral bridge in Chongqing has left many netizens in awe, with its sharp turns. The bridge, called the Rongqiao Overpass, has become a landmark for the city, but it's also raised debate among the locals. Some drivers in the city said they were thrilled when driving through these sharp turns, while others disagreed, saying driving on the spiral bridge is just like riding a roller coaster and they are not fond of the feeling. [Photo/Chinanews.com]


A triple-loop spiral bridge in Chongqing has left many netizens in awe, with its sharp turns. The bridge, called the Rongqiao Overpass, has become a landmark for the city, but it's also raised debate among the locals. Some drivers in the city said they were thrilled when driving through these sharp turns, while others disagreed, saying driving on the spiral bridge is just like riding a roller coaster and they are not fond of the feeling. [Photo/Chinanews.com]


A triple-loop spiral bridge in Chongqing has left many netizens in awe, with its sharp turns. The bridge, called the Rongqiao Overpass, has become a landmark for the city, but it's also raised debate among the locals. Some drivers in the city said they were thrilled when driving through these sharp turns, while others disagreed, saying driving on the spiral bridge is just like riding a roller coaster and they are not fond of the feeling. [Photo/Chinanews.com]

A triple-loop spiral bridge in Chongqing has left many netizens in awe, with its sharp turns. The bridge, called the Rongqiao Overpass, has become a landmark for the city, but it's also raised debate among the locals. Some drivers in the city said they were thrilled when driving through these sharp turns, while others disagreed, saying driving on the spiral bridge is just like riding a roller coaster and they are not fond of the feeling. [Photo/Chinanews.com]

 

[AndrewJin]

Aerial View Hegang to Dalian Expressway

China national expressway G11 Hegang to Dalian Expressway connects 3 northeast provinces, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces. This video was shoot in Heilongjiang province before its inauguration in October, 2016.

 

[JSCh]

Photos taken on Dec. 27, 2016 show an unusual ring-shaped bridge at the International Eco-aquapolis in the economic development zone of Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Photos taken on Dec. 27, 2016 show an unusual ring-shaped bridge at the International Eco-aquapolis in the economic development zone of Zhengzhou, Henan province.

 

[AndrewJin]

Photos taken on Dec. 27, 2016 show an unusual ring-shaped bridge at the International Eco-aquapolis in the economic development zone of Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Do you know how many expressway have opened in December?
I can't number

 

[JSCh]

Beipanjiang Bridge Duge (2016)
2016 World's Highest Bridge (when it is finished at the end of 2016)

2935km G56 Hangzhou-Ruilin National Expressway
Dugexiang, Guizhou, China
1,854 feet high / 565 meters high
2,362 foot span / 720 meter span

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World's highest bridge opens in Southwest China
Reporter: Liu Yang 丨 CCTV.com
12-29-2016 12:47 BJT

Guizhou province in southwest China is already home to seven of the 10 highest bridges in the country. And the Beipanjiang Bidge, now the world’s highest, has just opened to traffic. Clearly with a good head for heights, CCTV's Liu Yang visited this latest example of how Chinese engineering now ranks among the best in the world.

The Beipanjiang Bidge, now the world’s highest, has just opened to traffic.​

Another architectural marvel to add to the country which already has more than its fair share of construction wonders. Situated in rugged mountains and gorges, the 1,341-meter-long structure, soars 565 meters above the Baipanjiang Valley.

Equivalent to a 200-storey building, Beipanjiang has just overtaken the Sidu River Bridge in Hubei province to become the world's highest.

China has completed many noteworthy feats of engineering in recent years. Now another milestone has been passed in the field of bridge construction. Walking on the bridge above the gorge, one appreciates what cutting-edge technology has made possible.

The bridge connects the mountainous provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan. It’s expected to shorten the travel time between the two places to an hour and a half from five hours in the past.

The bridge, which spans the Beipanjiang Valley, is part of an extensive highway linking Hangzhou City in eastern China's Zhejiang province to Ruili City in southwestern Yunnan province. Construction of the massive suspension bridge began in 2013, at a cost of around 1 billion yuan or 143 million US dollars.

"In October 2013, the Ministry of Transport approved the Beipanjiang Bridge and gave us 8 point 9 million yuan in scientific research funding," said Zhou Ping, Director of the Beipanjiang Project.

"Our project provided match-funding of around 6 point 1 million yuan, bringing the research fund to around 15 million. Many institutes, including Jiaotong University, Guizhou Highway engineering group, and the Guizhou office of transportation joined together to conduct research and development. We developed a new kind of technology called cantilever erection by longitudinal launching, and this significantly shortened construction time."

Experts say construction was affected by wind, requiring a high degree of precision. Normally, crews transport pre-assembled sections and install them on the bridge. But on this project parts were assembled on-site. The engineering side also presented many challenges.

"Where to place the bridge piers was a problem. The gorge here is over 500 meters deep, so how are we going to design the structure of the bridge to deal with the strong wind field problem?'' said Liu Bo, deputy chief engineer, CCCC Highway Consultants Co., LTD..

Despite these challenges, the bridge is now part of the highway network in Guizhou, integrated into the regional grid in southwest China which includes the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan as well as Chongqing municipality. The increased traffic flow through this region thanks to the Beipanjian Bridge is expected to boost logistics and attract new investment.

 

[MULUBJA]

Some fantastic pictures. I like it.

 

[AndrewJin]

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World's highest bridge opens in Southwest China
Reporter: Liu Yang 丨 CCTV.com
12-29-2016 12:47 BJT

Guizhou province in southwest China is already home to seven of the 10 highest bridges in the country. And the Beipanjiang Bidge, now the world’s highest, has just opened to traffic. Clearly with a good head for heights, CCTV's Liu Yang visited this latest example of how Chinese engineering now ranks among the best in the world.

The Beipanjiang Bidge, now the world’s highest, has just opened to traffic.​

Another architectural marvel to add to the country which already has more than its fair share of construction wonders. Situated in rugged mountains and gorges, the 1,341-meter-long structure, soars 565 meters above the Baipanjiang Valley.

Equivalent to a 200-storey building, Beipanjiang has just overtaken the Sidu River Bridge in Hubei province to become the world's highest.

China has completed many noteworthy feats of engineering in recent years. Now another milestone has been passed in the field of bridge construction. Walking on the bridge above the gorge, one appreciates what cutting-edge technology has made possible.

The bridge connects the mountainous provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan. It’s expected to shorten the travel time between the two places to an hour and a half from five hours in the past.

The bridge, which spans the Beipanjiang Valley, is part of an extensive highway linking Hangzhou City in eastern China's Zhejiang province to Ruili City in southwestern Yunnan province. Construction of the massive suspension bridge began in 2013, at a cost of around 1 billion yuan or 143 million US dollars.

"In October 2013, the Ministry of Transport approved the Beipanjiang Bridge and gave us 8 point 9 million yuan in scientific research funding," said Zhou Ping, Director of the Beipanjiang Project.

"Our project provided match-funding of around 6 point 1 million yuan, bringing the research fund to around 15 million. Many institutes, including Jiaotong University, Guizhou Highway engineering group, and the Guizhou office of transportation joined together to conduct research and development. We developed a new kind of technology called cantilever erection by longitudinal launching, and this significantly shortened construction time."

Experts say construction was affected by wind, requiring a high degree of precision. Normally, crews transport pre-assembled sections and install them on the bridge. But on this project parts were assembled on-site. The engineering side also presented many challenges.

"Where to place the bridge piers was a problem. The gorge here is over 500 meters deep, so how are we going to design the structure of the bridge to deal with the strong wind field problem?'' said Liu Bo, deputy chief engineer, CCCC Highway Consultants Co., LTD..

Despite these challenges, the bridge is now part of the highway network in Guizhou, integrated into the regional grid in southwest China which includes the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan as well as Chongqing municipality. The increased traffic flow through this region thanks to the Beipanjian Bridge is expected to boost logistics and attract new investment.

ALL those new subways and new expressways inauguration news have been overshadowed by 2 HSRs in Yunnan Province....

As a Wuhan resident, I put my focus on HSRs instead of 2 subways and East Lake Greenway opened yesterday in the city....

I also know some new expressways and BRTs opened this week in my province.....who cares.....

 

[JSCh]

 

[JSCh]

From the oldest to the longest…China’s most famous bridges
By Ma Chi | chinadaily.com.cn | 2016-12-29 14:25

Qiantang River Bridge​

Completed: 1937

Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

Qiantang River Bridge is China's first modern iron bridge. The bridge was blown up merely three months after it opened to traffic in order to block the invading Japanese troops. It was rebuilt in 1946.



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From the oldest to the longest…China’s most famous bridges - Chinadaily.com.cn​

 

[AndrewJin]

Aerial view of the highest expressway interchange in the world

The interchange under construction will link G65 national expressway to the new YongJi expressway with the tallest pier about 100m high. It is located near Jishou city, Hunan province in Central China

 

[samsara]

Beipanjiang Bridge Duge - HighestBridges.com

Beipanjiang Bridge Duge 北盘江特大桥
Dugexiang, Guizhou, China
1,854 feet high / 565 meters high
2,362 foot span / 720 meter span
2016 World's Highest Bridge

Beipanjiang Bridge Duge 北盘江特大桥 by HighestBridges.com

Toppling all previous spans for height, the new Beipanjiang Bridge Duge will open in 2016 as the first crossing to ever surpass the 500 meter height barrier as well as becoming the first cable stayed bridge to ever hold the title of The World’s Highest Bridge.

No other region on earth has as many high bridges as China’s remote Western Province of Guizhou and there is no waterway within its borders with a greater collection of super-high bridge spans than the mighty Beipan River. Translated as the North Winding River, the BeipanJiang flows on a North-South rift that divides the Western and Eastern halves of Guizhou. The vertical limestone cliffs drop so deep that much of the river is in shadow during the day. Spaced every 50 kilometers along its length are a collection of epic road and railway bridges that have pushed the boundaries of China’s bridge engineering community.

Due to be completed in 2016, the G56 expressway is the last of Guizhou’s great East-West routes that will allow easy access into nearby Yunnan Province across terrain that was previously inaccessible to normal cars and trucks. The entire 4-lane divided highway stretches an incredible 2,935 kilometers from the city of Hanghzou near Shanghai to the border of Burma near Tibet. The extreme geography along the G56 has produced not only the world’s highest bridge over the Beipanjiang River near Duge, Guizhou but also the World’s Highest Suspension Bridge several kilometers further west near Puli, Yunnan.

All of this high bridge insanity began in 2001 when the mighty beast of the Beipan River summoned the construction of the World’s Highest Railway Bridge some 275 meters above a boulder-strewn crevasse on the Shuibai Railway. Two years later that triumph was followed by the river’s first road bridge record when the Beipanjiang Bridge Huajiang opened in 2003 surpassing the 300 meter height threshold as well as becoming the first suspension bridge in the world to surpass the height of Colorado’s Royal Gorge bridge after a 74-year reign.

This was followed by a succession of bridges both high and super-high including the Beipanjiang Bridge Hukun on the G60 expressway, the Beipanjiang Bridge on the Shuipan expressway with the world’s longest span high-level beam bridge, the Beipanjiang Bridge Wang’an expressway and the Beipanjiang Bridge Zhenfeng.

But in 2016 the Beipan will deliver its two biggest high bridge gifts ever in the form of the Beipanjiang Railway Bridge Qinglong - the world’s highest “High-Speed” railway bridge at 295 meters and the colossal Beipanjiang Bridge Duge at 564 meters in height. Other engineering honors Duge can claim include having the second longest steel trussed cable stayed span and the tenth tallest bridge tower in the world at 269 meters.

Until the year 2000, the experience of traveling around Guizhou was a grueling and arduous one that often took days along a dangerous network of older, 2-lane national roads. Despite a land mass slightly smaller then Great Britain or the U.S. state of Washington this outdated infrastructure limited the kind of growth that had been underway in the Eastern Provinces where accessibility had been improving steadily and rapidly since the early 1990s.

The first hint of Guizhou’s high bridge aspirations came in 2001 when the Liuguanghe beam bridge opened as the World’s Highest Bridge on a 2-lane expressway between the capital city of Guiyang and the smaller county of Bijie in the Northwest corner of the Province. In the 15 years that followed, expressway construction went into full gear with four and now six-lane expressways connecting cities both large and small regardless of how difficult the mountain terrain may be. An old saying states that in Guizhou there are no three days without rain, no three acres without a mountain and no three coins in any pocket. They may have to amend that and add that there are no three kilometers of expressway without a high bridge!

Today the Province of Guizhou is home to more high bridges then every other country on earth combined. By 2020 Guizhou will have more then 250 bridges over 100 meters high as measured from the road or rail deck to the water. Compare that with Italy which has the world’s second greatest number of high bridges with only 40 spans exceeding 100 meters in height. Of the world’s 20 super-high spans that exceed 300 meters from deck to water, all are in China except for 3.


[...] (much more info and many more pics at below link)

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


List of Highest International Bridges - HighestBridges.com
http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_500_Highest_International_Bridges

 

[AndrewJin]

East Lake Greenway opens to public in Wuhan, Central China

A "world-class" greenway opens to visitors in central China's Wuhan. The scenic walkway, stretching over 28 km long, cuts across what's seen as China's largest lake inside a city.

Greenways across Donghu Lake in central China's Wuhan