Puli Bridge, Suspension bridge on the G56 Hangzhou-Ruili Expressway near Xuanwei, Yunnan Province, China.
The Puli Bridge is a steel box girder suspension bridge on the G56 Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway in Puli Township, Xuanwei, Yunnan. Its main span is 628 meters and its total length 1,040 meters; the road deck is 24.5 meters wide and the two main cables are 26 meters apart.
Completed and opened to traffic in August 2015, the bridge was constructed using innovative rocket-assisted cable launching techniques to span the challenging mountainous terrain between Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.
The bridge carries the G56 Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway between Liupanshui and Xuanwei, crossing a small stream beside the Gexiang River gorge in Puli Township, Xuanwei. Its opening cut the drive from Xuanwei to the Guizhou border from four hours to one hour. The name comes from Puli Township, where the span stands.
The bridge reduced travel time from Xuanwei to the Guizhou border from four hours to just one hour, facilitating regional trade and improving transportation efficiency across difficult terrain.
The pilot cable for the main span was placed by rocket, a method also used at the Sidu River Bridge. Engineers could not descend to the valley floor to measure it; in 2014 Sakowski Eric took a reading of 485 m along the catwalk. The deck is a steel box girder.
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