Beipan River Hukun Expressway Bridge, Suspension bridge spanning Beipan River in Guanling Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Guizhou, China.
The Beipan River Hukun Expressway Bridge is a suspension bridge near Guanling, on the border of Anshun Prefecture in Guizhou, China. It carries the G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway over the Beipan River with a main span of 636 metres, and its deck stands 318 metres above the river.
Completed in 2008, the bridge carries the G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway over the Beipan River near Guanling, on the Anshun Prefecture side of Guizhou. At its opening it ranked among the twenty highest road decks in the world, a direct result of routing an expressway across the deep Beipan gorge.
The bridge carries the G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway, the route linking Shanghai with Kunming, across the Beipan River gorge near Guanling. Its 636-metre main span made it one of the twenty highest bridge decks in the world when it opened in 2008, a fact recorded in Chinese lists of the world's highest bridges.
The bridge carries the G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway near Guanling, on the Anshun prefecture border in Guizhou. It is a road crossing with no pedestrian or stopping lane, so it is seen by driving the expressway; no viewing platforms are documented at the site.
The 318-metre deck height is measured to the Beipan River far below, not to the tower tops; the bridge was completed in 2008 and, when it opened, stood among the twenty highest road decks in the world. Its 636-metre main span made it one of the longest suspension bridges in China at the time.
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