Puli Bridge is a suspension bridge near

Xuanwei Xuanwei () is a county-level city in the northeast of Yunnan, Yunnan Province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the north and east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qujing. Geography Xuanwei is located in northea ...

Qujing Qujing ( zh, c= , p=Qūjìng) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the north and east and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the south; thus, it was called "Key between Yunnan and Gui ...

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. The bridge, at , is one of the highest in the world. The bridge forms part of the

G56 Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway The Hangzhou–Ruili Expressway (), designated as G56 and commonly referred to as the Hangrui Expressway () is an expressway in China that connects the cities of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and Ruili, Yunnan, a city on the border with Burma. When complet ...

between

Liupanshui Liupanshui ( zh, s=六盘水 , t=六盤水 , p=Liùpánshuǐ) is a city in western Guizhou province, People's Republic of China. The name Liupanshui combines the first character from the names of each of the city's three constituent counties: Liu ...

and Xuanwei and was opened in August 2015. The bridge and associated expressway reduced the travel time from Xuanwei to the

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border from four hours to one hour. The bridge crosses a small stream beside the Gexiang River gorge.

Design and construction

The Puli Bridge has a main span of and a total length of . The road deck is wide and the main suspension cables are apart. The bridge cost 440 million yuan (about US$71 million) and officially opened to traffic on August 25, 2015. Similar to the

Sidu River Bridge The Sidu River Bridge (Chinese: 四渡河特大桥; pinyin: Sìdù Hé Tèdà Qiáo) is a suspension bridge crossing the valley of the Sidu River near Yesanguan in Badong County of the Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China. The bridge ...

, the first cable used to erect the span (the ''pilot cable'') was placed using a rocket.

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{{Reflist Bridges in Yunnan Suspension bridges in China Transport in Qujing