Bridges, Happy Or Sad?

Fifty years ago, China was naturally divided into southern and northern parts by the Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world crossing from west to east in China land, till Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge (see attached picture hereinafter) was completed in 1957 with the assistance of Russian. From then on, the south and north has been linked by the railway and highway, thus Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge became the most famous travel sight in Wuhan. What the most excited was to take a picture with the bridge as background for those who had ever been to Wuhan. Why is that because the bridge across the Yangtze River lasted its glory for 39 years in China.

In 1996, Wuhan finished the second bridge and put it into operation. It is from 1996 that heat of building bridges across the Yangtze River has been started in nearly all the cities adjacent to the river, to date there have near upon 80 large-specific bridges in operation and 18 under construction, averagely one bridge per 40km along the river.

We suffered from no bridge 50 years ago, today maybe we temporarily feel proud and happy because the bridges are economically bringing prosperity to us, however, we will finally be sad due to these bridges in coming future. The officers of some local cities only pay attention to achievements in their posts without long-term plan and proper design for large vessels passing through. Some of those bridges have been locking the river, the "Golden Waterway" we have ever been proud of for transportation on water, 10000 DWT vessels could only reach Nanjing and that can not go forward because of Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge with no enough net headroom left upon design and construction. Will this affect the water transportation economy of China? I think it will.

If I do not consider the national economical development, if I only consider the benefit of my company, I am so pleased to have so many bridges constructed because my company is an engineering company, skilled at construction of large-specific bridge with good prestige domestically and abroad longest river bridge in india.

Let me proudly display some of our typical achievements in construction of large-specific bridges mainly over Yangtze River as following pictures.

Sutong Yangtze River Bridge has already been open to traffic in this year, it has created 4 global records such as:
- 1088m main span(cable-stayed bridge), biggest in the world;
- 300.6m high tower, highest bridge tower in the world;
- 577m long cable stayed, longest in the world;
- group piles foundation big as 1 football field.