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The Edong Yangtze River Bridge () is a cable-stayed bridge across the
Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
in
Hubei Province Hubei is a province in Central China. It has the seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland provinces. Its provincial capital at Wuhan serves as a major politi ...
in eastern China. The bridge connects
Huangshi Huangshi ( zh, s= , t= , p=Huángshí), alternatively romanized as Hwangshih, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 2,469,079 inhabitants at the 2020 census; 1,567,108 of whom ...
and Xishui County and forms part of the
G45 Daqing–Guangzhou Expressway The Daqing–Guangzhou Expressway (), designated as G45 and commonly referred to as the Daguang Expressway () is an expressway that connects the cities of Daqing, Heilongjiang, and Guangzhou, Guangdong in China. When fully complete, it will be i ...
and the
G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway The Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway (), designated as G50 and commonly referred to as the Huyu Expressway () is an east-west bound expressway that connects the cities of Shanghai, China in Yangtze River Delta, and Chongqing in western China. The e ...
. Construction of the bridge started in 2008 and it was completed in 2010. With a main span of it is the fourth longest cable-stayed bridge in the world.


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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels The bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River carry rail and road traffic across China's longest and largest List of rivers of China, river and form a vital part of the Transport in China, country's transportation infrastructure. The river bi ...
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List of largest cable-stayed bridges This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than a ...
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List of tallest bridges in the world This list of tallest bridges includes bridges with a structural height of at least . The of a bridge is the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as the top of a bridge tower, to the lowermost exposed part of the br ...


References

Bridges over the Yangtze River Cable-stayed bridges in China Bridges completed in 2010 Huangshi Bridges in Hubei {{PRChina-road-stub