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The world's highest span opened to postulation successful China connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), authorities media said, capping an engineering feat 3 years successful the making and snatching the grounds from different span successful the aforesaid province.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625m supra a stream and immense gorge successful the country's rugged confederate state of Guizhou, besides location to the 565-metre Beipanjiang Bridge that is present the world's 2nd highest.
Live drone footage broadcast by authorities media connected Sunday (September 28, 2025) showed vehicles traversing the immense structure, its bluish enactment towers partially engulfed successful clouds.
Crowds of onlookers including task engineers and section officials gathered connected the span for a ceremonial to people the occasion, respective expressing their pridefulness and excitement successful unrecorded interviews to authorities media.
"The opening of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge reduces question clip betwixt the 2 sides from 2 hours to 2 minutes," Zhang Yin, caput of the provincial transport department, said astatine a property league Wednesday (September 24, 2025).
Its opening makes "enormous improvements to determination proscription conditions and (injects) caller impetus into determination economical and societal development", she said.
China has invested heavy successful large infrastructure projects successful caller decades, a play of accelerated economical maturation and urbanisation successful the country.
The hilly state of Guizhou successful peculiar is crisscrossed by thousands of bridges — which present see the world's 2 highest.
State quality bureau Xinhua said Wednesday (September 24, 2025) that astir fractional of the world's 100 highest bridges are located successful the province.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge took much than 3 years to complete, Xinhua reported. Its 1,420-metre main span makes it the "world's largest-span span built successful a mountainous area", it added.
Apart from the world's highest bridge, the tallest — measured successful presumption of the tallness of its ain structure, alternatively than the region to the crushed — remains France's Millau viaduct astatine 343,.
