The Yichang Yangtze River Highway Bridge () is a

suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...

that crosses 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 ...

some 20 km downstream from the center city of

Yichang Yichang ( zh, s= ), Postal Map Romanization, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most pop ...

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 ...

. It is located within the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...

of Yichang, and carries the G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway.Another Yangtze River Bridge Built
this article incorrectly identifies the road as G42 Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway, which actually takes a more northerly route. The construction of the bridge started on 19 February 1998, and it was open for traffic on 19 September 2001. It has a main span of . , it is among the 30 longest suspension bridges, based on the length of the main span. The cost of building the bridge was reported as 895 million yuan.

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Suspension bridges in China Bridges over the Yangtze River Bridges completed in 2001 Yichang Bridges in Hubei {{PRChina-bridge-struct-stub

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