The tallest bridge in China is the Beipanjiang Bridge, located above the Beipanjiang Grand Canyon at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, with a height of 565 meters. It is currently the tallest bridge in China and also the tallest bridge in the world.
The Beipanjiang Bridge is located in Yingpan Township, Shuicheng County, Guizhou Province. It spans the Beipanjiang Grand Canyon from the section between the Beipanjiang River and the Big Panjiang River. The terrain on both sides is steep, the terrain changes rapidly, and the terrain changes greatly. The river valley is more than 300 meters deep. The Beipanjiang Bridge flies over the Beipanjiang Grand Canyon in Guizhou and is 405 meters above the water. It surpasses the Qingshui River Bridge on the Nan-Kunming Railway and becomes the tallest bridge in Asia. The main span of the bridge is 388 meters. It is the first bridge in my country to use two-way prestressed concrete reinforcement. Extra large bridge with plate girder design. It connects the high-grade highway from Guanling to Xingyi and is an important link in Guizhou's "two horizontal, two vertical and four-link" high-grade highway network.
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Beipanjiang Bridge is located at the junction of Xuanwei, Yunnan and Shuicheng, Guizhou, spanning the two provinces, with a total length of 1341.4 meters and a vertical height of 565 meters from the bridge deck to the valley bottom. , becoming the tallest bridge in the world. At the same time, the heights of the main piers on the east and west sides of the bridge are 269 meters and 247 meters respectively. The main span of 720 meters is also second only to the Yachi River Bridge on the Gui (Yang) Guizhou (West) Expressway, which will be constructed later. The main span of this type of bridge ranks second in the world.
Beipanjiang River, a large tributary of the Hongshui River at the upper source of the Xijiang River in the Pearl River Basin, originates from the northwest foothills of Mahong Mountain in the Wumeng Mountains in Zhanyi County, Yunnan Province, and flows through Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. It is the boundary river between Yunnan and Guizhou, and flows into the left bank of Hongshui River at the mouth of Shuangjiang River. There are many bridges in Guizhou and Yunnan named after Beipanjiang Bridge.
The Beipanjiang River has a total length of 449 kilometers, a total drop of 1,985 meters, an average drop of 4.42‰, an average annual flow rate of 390 cubic meters per second at the estuary, and a drainage area of ??26,557 square kilometers.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia: Beipanjiang Bridge