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The Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge is a combined road-rail bridge over the
Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest list of rivers of Asia, river in Asia, the list of rivers by length, third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in th ...
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Jiujiang Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...
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Jiangxi Province Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hi ...
in eastern
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Xunyang District Xunyang District () is a district of the city of Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China. Administrative divisions Xunyang District has 7 subdistricts. ;7 subdistricts Transport * Beijing–Kowloon railway The Beijing–Kowloon railway, also know ...
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Jiujiang Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...
, south of the river, with Xiaochi Town in
Huangmei County Huangmei County () falls under the administration of Huanggang City in eastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, and borders Anhui to the east and Jiangxi to the south across the Yangtze. It also administers Shanjia Islet () in the Yang ...
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Hubei Province Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...
, to the north. The central section of the bridge uses a combined
arch An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it. Arches may be synonymous with vaul ...
and
truss A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembl ...
structure and the bridge is one of the longest continuous truss bridges in the world, with a longest span of and a total truss length of =3x162+180+216+180+2x126. The double deck bridge carries four vehicular lanes and two sidewalks on the top deck and two railway tracks on the bottom deck.


History

Construction of the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge began in 1973 but due to work stoppages, the bridge was not completed until 1993.(Chines

2013-02-16 The bridge was originally designed to carry trucks weighing up to . In 2008, the tonnage limit was raised to . In November 2011, a crack was discovered in the bridge's steel structure and forced the authorities to close the bridge to freight traffic.Key Yangtze River bridge closed for repair
/ref> In February 2012, the tonnage limit was lowered to . The
Jiujiang Fuyin Expressway Bridge The Jiujiang Yangtze River Expressway Bridge (), also known as the Second Jiujiang Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River between Huangmei, Huanggang, in Hubei province and Jiujiang, in Jiangxi province. The bridge carries s ...
, a
cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern o ...
upstream, opened in 2013.


See also

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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels The bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River carry rail and road traffic across China's longest and largest river and form a vital part of the country's transportation infrastructure. The river bisects China proper from west to east, and ever ...


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Huangshi Bridge The Huangshi Yangtze River Bridge () is a box girder bridge across the Yangtze River in Huangshi, Hubei Province in central China. The bridge is made of prestressed concrete. The bridge has a total length of , including a total span length of , i ...
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Anqing Bridge Anqing Yangtze River Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge spanning over the Yangtze River at Anqing, Anhui Province in eastern China.(Chinese百年梦圆 全长5985.66米安庆长江大桥建成通车2004-12-27 The bridge is wide and carries four la ...
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