"Hibiscus City is surrounded by mountains, with a strange goose-nose shape." The beautiful Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge Scenic Area (Ebizui Park) is located in the northwest of the Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge Scenic Area, one kilometer away from the urban area. It is winding and colorful, shaped like a swan stretching its nose into the river, so it is named after it.
The scenic area covers an area of ??1,280 acres and is dominated by mountains, with dense forests and rich nightlife. The Daqiao Scenic Area consists of three parts: Elshan Scenic Area, Dawan Scenic Area and Dongshan Scenic Area. The majestic first suspension bridge in China traverses the middle part of the tourist area, forming a landmark landscape with the bridge as a landmark, matching the ancient forts of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the fortress forest park. It has forty features such as Jiangwei Haitou, Chengjiang Ancient Ferry, Elbi Snow, and Rock Flowing Spring. The layout of large forests, large gardens, and large museums in each scenic spot and three-dimensional tourism form a grand sight with unique charm, attracting thousands of tourists. Rotating Observation Tower - The tower is 75 meters high. It is the tallest, largest and latest high-altitude tourist facility designed and built by China. Surrounded by mountains and rivers, as the cockpit spirals up, you can have a panoramic view of the majestic Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge and the new appearance of the ancient city.
1. Structure:
Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge is the main skeleton of the "two vertical and two horizontal" highways planned to be built by the state before 2000. It is the main national highway from Tongjiang to Sanya and the main line from Beijing to Beijing. The cross-river "throat" project of the main national highway in Shanghai. The bridge is located between Xishan in Jiangyin City (administered by Wuxi Municipality) and Shiwei Village in Jingjiang City (administered by Taizhou Municipality), Jiangsu Province. The bridge adopts a one-span, long-span steel suspension bridge type across the river. With a main span of 1,385 meters, it is currently “the first in China and the fourth in the world”. The south approach bridge of the bridge is 168 meters, the north approach bridge is 1518 meters, and the total length is 3071 meters. The bridge deck is designed according to a six-lane highway, with a width of 33.8 meters; the design driving speed is 100 kilometers/hour; the designed throughput is 27,000 vehicles/day, and the actual traffic capacity is 74,000 vehicles/day; the clear navigation height under the bridge is 50 meters, and it can It is suitable for navigation of Panamax bulk carriers with a capacity of 50,000 tons. The upper girder of the main bridge adopts a flat steel box girder with a height of 3 meters and a total width of 36.9 meters, requiring 18,000 tons of steel. The main cable is composed of two galvanized high-strength steel wires with a diameter of 5.35 mm and more than 20,000 wires each, with a maximum weight of 17,000 tons and a total length of 100,000 kilometers. The North Anchor adopts a large deep caisson foundation with a plane size of 69 meters × 51 meters and a sinking of 58 meters. It is the largest caisson in the world. The north and south bridge towers are 190 meters high, and the tower foundation adopts a bored column pile scheme. The north tower foundation is composed of 96 piles with a diameter of 2 meters. The total investment of the bridge is 3.374 billion yuan (of which 89.3 million US dollars was used as a loan from the British government).
2. Function:
The Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge, completed and opened to traffic in 1999, began to fully demonstrate its huge economic value in just three years. The industries, technologies, and investments in the economically developed southern Jiangsu region are accelerating their transfer to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the economic torrent from the north to the south of the Yangtze River is running day and night on the thousand-meter bridge. According to statistics, the average daily traffic volume of Jiangyin Bridge has increased from the initial 12,000 vehicles to the current 23,000 vehicles, with a total of nearly 20 million vehicles in operation, 70% of which are freight vehicles. Jiangyin Bridge brings together two-thirds of the logistics in Jiangsu Province. Become the "integrator" of economic resources from the north and the south, allowing the economy of the south of the Yangtze River to cross the bridge and move northward. The three cities of Jiangyin, Zhangjiagang and Jingjiang on the north and south sides of the Jiangyin Bridge are all economically strong counties in the country. Jiangyin City on the south bank has 35 kilometers of deep-water coastline of the Yangtze River. Currently, it has built more than 40 berths for ships with a capacity of 10,000 tons, which is an important resource for the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Distribution center. As one of the important international trading ports in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhangjiagang City has 21 10,000-ton berths on the 37-kilometer Yangtze River coastline, with an annual throughput capacity of more than 15 million tons, including 120,000 TEUs of container freight, ranking among the best in the country. On the north bank of Jingjiang, known as "Little Jiangnan", with 52 kilometers of Yangtze River coastline, it is an undeveloped virgin land. The construction of the Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge has given it a location advantage similar to Jiangyin and Zhangjiagang. “Building the city with bridges” has become Jingjiang City’s new development strategic orientation.
3. Design:
Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge won the first Eugene Figo Gold Medal awarded by the International Bridge Congress at the annual academic conference in Pittsburgh. This is the first time China has won the International Bridge Award. The Eugene Figo Gold Medal is named after the famous American bridge designer Eugene Figo and is used to recognize outstanding iconic bridges built through imagination and innovative spirit in recent times around the world.