Posted on 09/29/2025 3:06:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The world’s highest bridge opened in China on Sunday, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge, which is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado and is the highest in the United States.
According to Chinese state media, the new Guizhou bridge also sets a record as the world’s longest bridge in a mountainous region, spanning 4,600 feet across.
Hailed as China’s latest “infrastructure miracle,” the bridge is designed to spur tourism and economic growth in one of the country’s least developed regions.
The mega project, constructed over three years and eight months, will cut travel time between the two sides of the canyon from two hours to two minutes and connect major tourist spots, officials said.
Tian Hongrui, a technician for the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, said he felt “proud to have left a mark.”
“Leaving now is bittersweet, but this isn’t the end,” Tian told state-run broadcaster CCTV News. “It’s the start of a new chapter.”
The bridge has a high-speed glass elevator that can send visitors to a coffee spot 2,600 feet above the river. Visitors can also try bungee jumping or a 1,900-foot-high glass walkway.
The province of Guizhou, which is home to about 40 million people, has undergone an infrastructure campaign in recent decades as part of the Chinese government’s war on poverty. It now has more than 32,000 bridges that are either completed or under construction, compared with about 2,900 in the 1980s.
Guizhou is also home to what is now the world’s second-highest bridge, Duge Bridge, which opened in 2016.
Ruh roh. Sum Ting Wong.
No thanks on the glass walkway.
10 to 1 odds it collapses within 5 years. Tofu dreg.
Visitors can also try bungee jumping or a 1,900-foot-high glass walkway.
Nope. Nope nope nope.
For the sake of users of the bridge, hopefully it is not a “tofu-dreg project” (豆腐渣工程)!
Cool
But I’ve seen enough of Chinese infrastructure videos to not really trust it
GMTA
Bing Dang Ow!
once you’re over 200 feet, it doesn’t really matter how high it is. If you fall, you’re dead.
My thoughts exactly.
Wii Tu Hai
200’? How about 20’ on yer head.
Soon Tu Lo.
You’d lose making such a bet.
Erf quake standards?
The higher it is the more entertaining it is. You can bet they will let it rust and in a few decades it will fall.
Bigger, better, all fall down.
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