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China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« on: October 05, 2025, 09:36:00 am »
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China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river in Guizhou province, more than twice as high as its highest counterpart in the U.S.
Sept. 29, 2025, 6:55 AM EDT
By Peter Guo
NBC News

HONG KONG — The world’s highest bridge opened in China on Sunday, taking the crown from another bridge in the same province.

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge soars about 2,050 feet above a river and gorge in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. It is more than twice as high as the Royal Gorge Bridge, which is suspended 956 feet above the Arkansas River in Colorado and is the highest in the United States. ...

The mega project, constructed over three years and eight months, will cut travel time between the two sides of the canyon from two hours to two minutes and connect major tourist spots, officials said. ...

The bridge has a high-speed glass elevator that can send visitors to a coffee spot 2,600 feet above the river. Visitors can also try bungee jumping or a 1,900-foot-high glass walkway. ...
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It's amazing what you can achieve with a little slave labor and with money you got from murdering Uyghur Muslims for their valuable organs. The CCP knows how to get it done!
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2025, 09:36:38 am »
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2025, 09:41:45 am »
Must be quite a spectacle.
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2025, 09:50:22 am »
How long will it stay up?
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2025, 10:00:47 am »
Quote from: DB on October 05, 2025, 09:50:22 am
How long will it stay up?
I've watched too many episodes of Engineering Catastrophes on the Science Channel, because that was my first thought.
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2025, 12:23:36 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on October 05, 2025, 10:00:47 am
I've watched too many episodes of Engineering Catastrophes on the Science Channel, because that was my first thought.
Another quality Tofu-Dreg Project, no doubt.
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2025, 12:27:13 pm »
I wonder how many people died constructing this... :smokin:
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2025, 03:54:57 pm »
Jokes about "how long it will stay up aside", that's quite impressive.
Particularly the restaurant way WAY up at the top.

Remember jokes about the quality of things that came from Japan when we were kids?
Methinks the Chinese are learning, as did the Japanese and Koreans before them.
And probably at a rate that -- when compared to the quality of youth the public schools HERE are churning out -- puts us to shame...
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2025, 11:57:54 am »
UPDATE  Not this bridge, apparently, but another of China's engineering feats has just collapsed, months after completion.

Hongqi Bridge in Southwest China crashes down — it opened only months ago
Story by Durva More
Economic Times
Nov. 11, 2025

Part of the Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan province, Southwest China, collapsed on Tuesday along a national highway that connects China’s heartland with Tibet. Local authorities confirmed the collapse but said there were no reports of casualties so far. The bridge is 758 meters long and is located in the city of Maerkang.

Police had already closed the bridge to all traffic on Monday afternoon, a day before the collapse, as per the report by Reuters. The bridge was closed after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads, and shifts were seen in the terrain of a mountain close to it.
Bridge collapse caused by landslides.

On Tuesday afternoon, the weather in the mountains became worse. This caused landslides. Because of the landslides, the approach bridge and the road were damaged and fell down.  ...


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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2025, 12:19:24 pm »
Quote from: DB on October 05, 2025, 09:50:22 am
How long will it stay up?

It has already collapsed ...
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2025, 12:25:57 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on October 05, 2025, 03:54:57 pm
Jokes about "how long it will stay up aside", that's quite impressive.
Particularly the restaurant way WAY up at the top.

Remember jokes about the quality of things that came from Japan when we were kids?
Methinks the Chinese are learning, as did the Japanese and Koreans before them.
And probably at a rate that -- when compared to the quality of youth the public schools HERE are churning out -- puts us to shame...

All things in China are based on bribes. Never was that way in Japan or S Korea. Chinese students in China learn from Party approved texts: the Party is always right. To find fault in a text, is to criticize the Party, meriting strict discipline. Buildings are routinely built with foam mixed in the concrete because its cheaper, etc. China's stuff from internal consumer goods to its military are 3rd 4th rate.
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Re: China opens world's highest bridge, breaking its own record
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2025, 04:12:14 pm »
Quote from: BobfromWB on November 11, 2025, 12:19:24 pm
It has already collapsed ...
I think it was a different one that collapsed, but am not entirely certain.
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