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Xinhua Headlines: World's highest bridge opens to traffic in China's mountainous southwest

Source:Xinhua 2025-10-09

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* The world's highest bridge opened to traffic Sunday morning in southwest China's Guizhou Province, slashing travel time across a deep canyon from two hours to just two minutes after three years of construction. 

* The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou's mountainous terrain, is nearly nine times the height of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

* This mega-project has attracted worldwide attention since its launch in 2022. Now, it has not only added a new landmark to Guizhou, renowned as "the world's bridge museum," but also presented the globe with a Chinese approach for building bridges in mountainous canyons.

GUIYANG, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The world's highest bridge opened to traffic Sunday morning in southwest China's Guizhou Province, slashing travel time across a deep canyon from two hours to just two minutes after three years of construction. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou's mountainous terrain, is nearly nine times the height of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Spanning the Huajiang Grand Canyon, dubbed "the Earth's crack," the 2,890-meter-long structure is the latest addition to the rapidly expanding infrastructure network of the world's second-largest economy. This mega-project has attracted worldwide attention since its launch in 2022. Now, it has not only added a new landmark to Guizhou, renowned as "the world's bridge museum," but also presented the globe with a Chinese approach for building bridges in mountainous canyons.

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