Baling River Bridge, Suspension bridge in Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, China.
The Baling River Bridge is a steel truss stiffened suspension bridge over the Baling River valley in Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou. Its main span of 1,088 m and total length of 2,237 m carry the deck 370 m above the river, with towers 185.788 m high on the east bank and 201.316 m on the west.
Officially opened to traffic on December 23, 2009, the bridge reduced travel time across the valley from one hour to four minutes as part of the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway connecting Guiyang and Kunming.
The bridge carries the G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway across the Baling River valley in Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun. Its opening shortened the drive between Guiyang and Kunming by about an hour, and Guizhou's expressway network reached 1,188 km at that time.
The bridge features a width of 80 feet (24.5 meters) for expressway traffic and includes wind blades inside its four-story-high stiffening truss to prevent oscillations during extreme weather conditions.
The bridge deck sits 370 m above the Baling River, and its two towers differ in height: the east tower rises 185.788 m and the west tower 201.316 m. Construction began on 18 April 2005, and the total investment reached 1.48 billion yuan.
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