The Huajing Grand Canyon Bridge towers 2,050 feet from the river below. Aerial images have emerged of an incredible new bridge that has broken the record as the tallestbridgeever built. The Huajing Grand Canyon Bridge is expected to drastically cut the current 70-minute journey time to cross the whole canyon to just one minute.
The 9,481-foot-long bridge is pivotal to the local government's hopes to boost tourism in the Guizhou province ofChinaand prompt "rural revitalisation." The new snaps showed one of the bridge towers mounted with cranes as a steel main cable stretched to an already-finished tower nearby.
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The Huajing Grand Canyon Bridge is expected to stand 2,050 feet over the Bedpan River – about as tall as two stacked Eiffel Towers. The project took years and hundreds of engineers involved in the planning and building process.
The project's chief engineer, Liu Hao, said several of the contractors involved in building the bridge are aged 35 and under and became involved because of their curiosity.
Liu said: "Filled with curiosity and passion, young people tend to embrace new things more easily without being affected by experiences. They also have a strong capability to learn."
One of the workers, Wang Songyu, toldChinaDaily: "It's my great honour to build roads and bridges for the benefit of the people."
Swedish company Alimak, which provided equipment to build the bridge, said builders encountered "distinctive challenges" when tackling the HuajingGrand CanyonBridge project.
A spokesperson for the company said: "Being in a plateau region intensifies atmospheric temperature differences between day and night, leading to the likelihood of severe convective weather and consistent valley winds throughout the year."
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
