Chishuihe Bridge Chajiaotan, Suspension bridge in Xishui County, Guizhou Province, China.
This suspension bridge spans 2,003 meters across the Chishui River with a main span of 1,200 meters and a width of 27 meters, connecting Xishui County and Gulin County in the mountainous terrain of western Guizhou Province.
Construction began in mid-March 2017, and the two halves of the deck were joined on 30 May 2019. The bridge was handed over on 30 September 2019 and opened to traffic on 1 January 2020 with a 15 km section of the GuYi (S80) expressway. It was built in 26 months, 18 months less than estimated, at a cost of about 1.7 billion yuan.
The bridge is named Hongjun Bridge in Chinese, which refers to the Red Army, commemorating the historical significance of the Long March when Communist forces crossed the Chishui River multiple times during the 1930s.
The bridge is located at postal code 564622 with the address 547Q+9H9 in Xishui County, and it accommodates multiple lanes of vehicular traffic on the expressway connecting Xuyong to Gulin and the surrounding region.
The 243.5 m figure is the height of the Guizhou-side pylon at Chajiaotan, not the deck height; the deck clears the Chishui River by 350 m, and the pylon tops stand 503 m above the water. The Sichuan-side pylon at Chajiao village is 228 m tall and sits at 768 m elevation. The bridge cost about 1.7 billion yuan.
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