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The Xingkang Bridge or Luding Yaye Expressway Bridge as is a suspension bridge in
Luding County Luding County ( zh, s=泸定县 , t=瀘定縣 , p=Lúdìng Xiàn), also known via its Tibetan name as Chagsam or Jagsam (), is a county located in the southeast of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province, China. Luding County ...
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Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
that opened in 2018. The high deck is one of the highest in world. The bridge forms part of the
G4218 Ya'an–Kargilik Expressway The G4218 Ya'an-Yecheng Expressway (), commonly referred to as the Yaye Expressway (), is an expressway that will traverse the entirety of Tibet and link Ya'an in Sichuan to Kargilik County, Yecheng in Xinjiang. Description In a unique case f ...
carrying traffic over the
Dadu River The Dadu River (, ), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu (), is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min Rive ...
. The bridge began construction in 2014 and opened in 2018. The main span of the bridge is making it one of the longest ever built. The bridge is located just 2 kilometres upstream from the Luding Dam and crosses the reservoir formed by the dam. Although the bridge is 285 metres above the original river the bridge sits 235 metres above the reservoir. The bridge was constructed as part of the new expressway from
Ya'an Ya'an ( zh, s=雅安, p=Yǎ'ān, w=Ya-an) is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province, China, located just below the Tibetan Plateau. The city is home to Sichuan Agricultural University, the only Project 211, 211 Project ...
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Kangding Kangding ( zh, c=康定), also known as Dartsedo (), is a county-level city and the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Kangding is on the bank of the Dadu River and has been considered the his ...
massively reducing travel times in the area.


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List of bridges in China This list of bridges in China includes notable bridges. China has a long history in bridge construction. The oldest bridge still in existence in China is the Anji Bridge, constructed during the years between 595 and 605. During the infrastructur ...
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List of highest bridges in the world This list of highest bridges includes bridges with a deck height of at least . The of a bridge is the maximum vertical drop distance between the bridge deck (the road, rail or other transport bed of a bridge) and the ground or water surface ben ...
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List of longest suspension bridge spans The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of ...
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Luding Bridge Luding Bridge () is a bridge over the Dadu River in Luding County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, located about 80 kilometers west of the city of Ya'an. The bridge dates from the Qing Dynasty and is considered a historical ...


External links

* http://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Daduhe_Bridge_Xingkang


References

* http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-04/06/content_28815397.htm Bridges in Sichuan Suspension bridges in China Bridges completed in 2018 {{PRChina-bridge-struct-stub