Panorama views of some magnificent bridges in China. Must Watch!

[GS Zhou]

Yachi River Bridge, Guizhou Province
http://720yun.com/t/afejkr4fum0?pano_id=3484797

Balin River Bridge, Guizhou Province
http://720yun.com/t/710jOpeysf1?pano_id=2308982

Qingshui River Bridge, Guizhou Province
http://720yun.com/t/3f426mb8qeg?pano_id=505870

Beipanjiang Bridge, Guizhou Province
http://720yun.com/t/94xyppo9g7syogd908?pano_id=uIlYSVbqPop8fz7X
http://720yun.com/t/94xjjlm2qjhyona808?pano_id=LGG0V3LJhGsd8rJr

Beipanjiang Bridge (another one)
http://720yun.com/t/829jkrsm5O9?pano_id=3488716

Longjiang Bridge, Yunnan Province
http://720yun.com/t/d9fjOrumev4?pano_id=1743883

Panxing Bridge, Guizhou Province
http://720yun.com/t/d92jOdynOy9?pano_id=2027422

Siduhe Bridge, Hubei Province
http://720yun.com/t/8f1jOpkmek9?pano_id=2309931

Sunli River Bridge (in construction)
http://720yun.com/t/81bjO04yvk6?pano_id=2479760
http://720yun.com/t/2dfjzsyaOm8?pano_id=6294863

Aizhai Bridge, Hunan Province
http://720yun.com/t/93cjzsuazu2?pano_id=6180068
http://720yun.com/t/7f2jOOyfua1?pano_id=3153384

Guozigou Bridge, Xinjiang Province
http://720yun.com/t/464jO54a5f9?pano_id=2162314

Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Zhejiang Province
http://720yun.com/t/d64jO7efuw9?pano_id=3233267

Jiashao Bridge, Zhejiang Province
http://720yun.com/t/c5f29uzgjl6?pano_id=1574025

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[AndrewJin]

These bridges are integral parts of China's controlled-access expressway network,
now more than 131,000km, adding 10,000km per year.

From wiki
The expressway network of China is an integrated system of national and provincial-level expressways in China. By the end of 2016, the total length of China's expressway network reached 131,000 kilometers, the world's largest expressway system by length, having surpassed the overall length of the American Interstate Highway System in 2011.[1] A system of national-level expressways, officially known as the National Trunk Highway System (simplified Chinese: 中国国家高速公路网; traditional Chinese: 中國國家高速公路網; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guójiā Gāosù Gōnglùwǎng) and abbreviated NTHS,[2] with 7 radial expressways (from the capital Beijing), 11 north-south expressways and 18 east-west expressways, forms the backbone of the expressway network in the country. This backbone is known as the 71118 network (simplified Chinese: 71118网; traditional Chinese: 71118網; pinyin: 71118 wǎng).[3] In addition, the provincial-level divisions of China each have their own expressway systems.


Only national expressways shown on the map

Yachi River Bridge
S82 Provincial Expressway, Qianxi County, Guizhou Province, Western China

Location of Yachi Riber bridge on S82
and expressway network around Guiyang, Bijie and Zunyi cities in Southwest China

 

[AndrewJin]

 

[GS Zhou]

what a beauty!! almost looks like a CG!

 

[powastick]

These bridges are integral parts of China's controlled-access expressway network,
now more than 131,000km, adding 10,000km per year.

From wiki
The expressway network of China is an integrated system of national and provincial-level expressways in China. By the end of 2016, the total length of China's expressway network reached 131,000 kilometers, the world's largest expressway system by length, having surpassed the overall length of the American Interstate Highway System in 2011.[1] A system of national-level expressways, officially known as the National Trunk Highway System (simplified Chinese: 中国国家高速公路网; traditional Chinese: 中國國家高速公路網; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guójiā Gāosù Gōnglùwǎng) and abbreviated NTHS,[2] with 7 radial expressways (from the capital Beijing), 11 north-south expressways and 18 east-west expressways, forms the backbone of the expressway network in the country. This backbone is known as the 71118 network (simplified Chinese: 71118网; traditional Chinese: 71118網; pinyin: 71118 wǎng).[3] In addition, the provincial-level divisions of China each have their own expressway systems.


Only national expressways shown on the map
View attachment 424786



Yachi River Bridge
S82 Provincial Expressway, Qianxi County, Guizhou Province, Western China

Location of Yachi Riber bridge on S82
and expressway network around Guiyang, Bijie and Zunyi cities in Southwest China
View attachment 424788

To exit from national expressway to a provincial ones, are there toll booths?

 

[AndrewJin]

To exit from national expressway to a provincial ones, are there toll booths?

National expressways and provincial expressways are within one integral system.
No need to exit the system!

One example:


This video is about driving from Chengde City to G1 Expressway
First on provincial expressway of S52.（the video shows the entire 196km length)
At the last 1-2 minute, you can see the connection from S52 to G1.
S52 is part of Hebei Province funded province-level expressway network.
G1 is national expressway radiating from Beijing all the way to Harbin

First one minute shows the interchange from S52 to G1.
Then entirely on G1 from Qinhuangdao City to Huludao City

A closer look at
how province-level expressways interchange with national-level expressways

S stands for province
G stands for national

National expressways are in most cases more important than province-level ones.
As you can observe from the videos, G1 is much busier than S52.
S52 is mainly designed for people from Chengde City to access G1.
Another 10 ramps to connect towns

1209km Beijing-Harbin expressway will start upgrading project to at 8-10 lanes late 2017, some sections 12 lanes or more.
When the project finishes, on one direction lorries and cars will drive on separate lanes.

 

[GS Zhou]

A flyover in Chongqing, completely shocked by its size and complexity!!!
http://720yun.com/t/91ajOshwkw0?pano_id=2652731

 

[samsara]

Map of Highways/Expressways in Mainland China

Credit to LifanDefense, file is said to be dated 2017-07-10 but the map may quite possibly be the older one​

Thank you @GS Zhou and @AndrewJin for the cool info. I combine the info from two of you for a good share in the socmed cool links of bridges and background info plus wallpaper quality screen snapshot images of the Yachi River Bridge 鸭池河大桥 located at the S82 Provincial Expressway, Qianxi County, Guizhou Province, Western China, as the intro Terrific!

 

[AndrewJin]

Map of Highways/Expressways in Mainland China

View attachment 425378

Credit to LifanDefense, file dated 2017-07-10​

Thank you @GS Zhou and @AndrewJin for the cool info. I combine the info from two of you for a good share in the socmed cool links of bridges and background info plus wallpaper quality images as the intro Terrific!

How old is this expressway map.....
Until now, I can't find one single map showing all the expressways in China.
They all only show China's national-level ones....
My province alone has 5000+km!
On this map, only around 2000-2500km

 

[samsara]

How old is this expressway map.....
Until now, I can't find one single map showing all the expressways in China.
They all only show China's national-level ones....
My province alone has 5000+km!
On this map, only around 2000-2500km

Sorry AndrewJin, I have no answer on how old the map is indeed, just found it at internet resource said file date is 20170710... but not necessarily the map is that new

Btw, on my recent visit to Inner Mongolia - Shanxi this summer I saw some store at the gas station or toilet stop sold some comprehensive road map of China for automotive driving use, thick and wide in form of a large-size book, and there are a couple of publishers... must be quite useful for those citizens like to drive long way to new areas.

The other thing some friend told me that the expressway tariff in China ain't cheap for the govt indeed prioritizes the expressway for commercial/industry uses, so the toll road fee is not cheap, perhaps to discourage the private cars from flooding the toll roads. What do you think about the expressway tariff?

 

[GS Zhou]

Thank you @GS Zhou and @AndrewJin for the cool info. I combine the info from two of you for a good share in the socmed cool links of bridges and background info plus wallpaper quality screen snapshot images of the Yachi River Bridge 鸭池河大桥 located at the S82 Provincial Expressway, Qianxi County, Guizhou Province, Western China, as the intro Terrific!

you are welcome my friend, very happy that you think the information helpful.
BTW, mind to tell us what is socmed? thanks in advance.

The other thing some friend told me that the expressway tariff in China ain't cheap for the govt indeed prioritizes the expressway for commercial/industry uses, so the toll road fee is not cheap, perhaps to discourage the private cars from flooding the toll roads. What do you think about the expressway tariff?

No toll, no road. It is a fair game.

the expanding expressway network is crucial to the boom of the Chinese car market. Otherwise it is hard to imagine the car market in China could grow from less than 1 million units a year to over 23 million units a year in less than two decades.

 

[AndrewJin]

you are welcome my friend, very happy that you think the information helpful.
BTW, mind to tell us what is socmed? thanks in advance.


No toll, no road. It is a fair game.

the expanding expressway network is crucial to the boom of the Chinese car market. Otherwise it is hard to imagine the car market in China could grow from less than 1 million units a year to over 23 million units a year in less than two decades.
View attachment 425383

It's unlikely our new expressways can be added in 2010s manner.
But the sales of new cars is unstoppable, and increasing at even higher speed.
Now, many key expressways are being upgraded, or a parallel expressway is being built....


See the thin lines around G4(Beijing-Zhuhai)
G4W2, G4E, are all duplicated expressways of G4.....
G4 is horrible around my hometown....
I always avoid driving on that hellish expressway.....
Lorries, coaches, one after one.....
But thanks to G4, even in winter, we can have fresh veggie from Southern China.

 

[samsara]

Socmed = Social media (distributed at smartphone it means using app like wechat whatsapp etc)

Of course such toll road is not cheap to build... it costs a fortune to build all the quality roads. In my place, those toll roads that come later do costs higher to users, due to cost escalations incl the land costs. The long-time built ones are cheaper. Does this kind of time difference affect the road pricing in China?

Can you give some idea about the road pricing of the oldest and newest expressways... price for passenger car at how much for how many kilometer trip?

 

[GS Zhou]

Can you give some idea about the road pricing of the oldest and newest expressways... price for passenger car at how much for how many kilometer trip?

in average it is 0.5 RMB per km. But if you drive through some special/long/complicated tunnels or bridges, the price will be higher. For example, the 36km-long Hangzhou Bay Bridge (杭州湾跨海大桥), the toll is 80 RMB, i.e. 2.2 RMB per km.

View of the mentioned Hangzhou Bay Bridge
http://720yun.com/t/d64jO7efuw9?pano_id=3233267

Continue the posts on brides in China.

Chishi Bridge, Hunan Province
http://720yun.com/t/8482b9Ogwls?pano_id=1482945

Qixing Expressway Bridge
http://720yun.com/t/131jOzey5u5?pano_id=2744830

Boyang Lake Bridge
http://720yun.com/t/899jzpywuv6?pano_id=5976185

Dubu Bridge
http://720yun.com/t/80d20mivjbn?pano_id=455130

High speed rail bridge in Liupanshui (under construction)
http://720yun.com/t/4d5jz0hvOu9?pano_id=6094278

High speed rail bridge in Liujiadayuan (under construction)
http://720yun.com/t/4abzd2prnit?pano_id=29625

A high speed rail bridge cross an existing expressway
http://720yun.com/t/f8fjOdefzv1?pano_id=1952245
this is a nice picture. Because it shows the building of the high speed rail bridge not stops the normal operation of the expressway.

 

[samsara]

Thank you @GS Zhou for the pricing info & more bridge links, now I have some idea about the toll road pricing in China. And I think it's still quite affordable. And about the special structures (tunnels, bridges etc) that cost more, they are also quite understandable! And think some users are more than happy to pay that little prices to enjoy the spectacular rides such as riding on the Hangzhou Bay Bridge me included...

just take it as the small entrance fee for a spectacular sightseeing ride... just open the windows, feel the breezes

If I were living around that bay area, it would have been part of my regular pleasure driving exercise, esp. at the night time, could be once every week or fortnight, at least once a month, just to have the sensation, open the car windows, light the cigarette, on the music and feel the breeze... just a low cost escape...