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Friday, December 30, 2016

Beipanjiang bridge, the world’s highest at 1,854 feet, opens in China Friday Dec 30,2016

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The world’s highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and reducing travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said Friday Dec 30,2016

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The Beipanjiang Bridge soars 565 metres (1,854 feet) above the Nizhu river and connects the two mountainous provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, the Guizhou provincial transport department said in a statement on its official website.

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The bridge cut travel times between Xuanwei in Yunnan to Shuicheng in Guizhou from more than four hours to around one, a truck driver surnamed Duan was quoted by the official news agency Xinhua as saying after the bridge opened Thursday Dec 29,2016

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It was “very convenient for people who want to travel between these two places”, he added.
The 1,341-metre span cost over 1 billion yuan (USD 144 million) to build, according to local newspaper Guizhou Daily.

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It overtook the Si Du River Bridge in the central province of Hubei to become the world’s highest bridge, a separate statement by the provincial transport department said earlier.

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Several of the world’s highest bridges are in China, although the world’s tallest bridge — measured in terms of the height of its own structure, rather than the distance to the ground — remains France’s Millau viaduct at 343 metres.

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