Beijing, 20 September (People's Daily Online) - “The highest bridge is Beipanjiang First Bridge, at 565.4 meters above the mean high water level,” says the certificate issued by Guinness World Records, to the bridge located over a “U” shape canyon at the junction of southwest China's Yunnan Province and Guizhou Province, a local Guizhou media source reported on Wednesday.
As the world's highest bridge and the bridge with the second largest span in the world so far, the Beipanjiang Bridge is a steel truss cable-stayed bridge with a total length of 1,341.4 meters and a maximum span of 720 meters.
The bridge, with a height equal to a 200-storey building, is one of three bridges on the Bijie-Duge section of the Hangzhou-Ruili Expressway, an expressway that connects the cities of Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, and Ruili, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
As it was built over a steep canyon with complicated geological conditions, it's said that the bridge created the need for brand new construction technology and building methods.
