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www.chinanews.cn 2007-06-19 10:25:42

(Source: Xinhua)

The two ends of the Sutong Bridge, the world's longest span bridge, were
connected over China's Yangtze River on Monday, June 18, 2007.

The two ends of the Sutong Bridge, the world's longest span bridge, were
connected over China's Yangtze River on Monday, June 18, 2007.

June 19 - The two ends of the bridge with the world's longest span were
connected over China's Yangtze River on Monday.
The bridge linking two major cities in the eastern Jiangsu Province is
being built by the Second Engineering Corp. of the China Road and Bridge
Corp. at a cost of 6.45 billion yuan (830 million U.S. dollars).
Started simultaneously in the cities of Nantong and Suzhou in 2003, the
Sutong Yangtze Road Bridge, linking Nantong and Changshu in Suzhou, runs
32.4 kilometers, with 8,146 meters spanning the Yangtze, China's longest
waterway.
It has the world's longest span of 1,088 meters, usurping the previous
record holder, the Tatara Bridge in Japan, which has a main span of 890
meters.
Its steel and concrete bridge towers, the tallest in the world, stand at
300.4 meters.
Experts say the bridge will serve as a major land link between
Nantong,Suzhou and Shanghai after it opens to traffic in 2008. It will
also promote economic growth in the Yangtze River Delta and promote
tourism.
Around 150,000 bridges had been built in China over the past 15 years, an
average of 10,000 a year, said Xu Kuangdi, president of the Chinese
Academy of Engineering.
The bridges, with a total distance of more than 8,300 kilometers, include
road and railway bridges, cloverleaf intersections in big cities, and
156.7 kilometers of bridges built on frozen ground for the Qinghai-Tibet
railway.

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