Guizhou, which is located in a mountainous area with multiple cloves, is home to seven out of China’s ten highest bridges.
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Workers installed the last but one bridge deck last Saturday morning and continued to install the last one in the afternoon. The Beipanjiang Bridge is the the first cable stayed bridge to ever hold the title of The World’s Highest Bridge. It will cut road trips from Liu-pan-shui in Guizhou to Xuanwei in neighboring Yunnan province from around five hours to less than two. According to the schedule, the bridge is to be put into operation by year’s end.
Several of the world´s highest bridges are in China, although the world´s tallest bridge – measured in terms of the height of its own structure, rather than the distance to the ground – remains France´s Millau viaduct at 343 metres tall.
China has completed the construction of the highest bridge in the world, 565 meters above the Nizhu River Canyon in the south, the Chinese official TV network CCTV reports.
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Just this year, innovative glass bridges have sprung up across China, notably two walkways daringly positioned on the Tianmen Mountainside in Henan province -stretching 330ft-long and just 5ft wide.
