The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (), previously called the First Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a double-decked road-rail

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across the

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Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

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, connecting the city's

Pukou Pukou District (), is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China, lying northwest across the Yangtze River from downtown Nanjing. The district was formerly the southern terminus of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway; railcars ...

and Gulou districts. Its upper deck is part of

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, spanning . Its lower deck, with a

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, is long, and completes the

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, which had been divided by the Yangtze for decades. Its right bridge consists of nine piers, with the maximum span of and the total length of . The bridge carries approximately 80,000 vehicles and 190 trains per day. The bridge was completed and open for traffic in 1968. It was the third bridge over the Yangtze after the

Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge The Wuhan Yangtze Great Bridge (), commonly known as Wuhan First Yangtze Bridge, is a double-deck road and rail bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhan, in Central China. At its completion in 1957, the bridge was the easternmost crossing of t ...

and the

Chongqing Baishatuo Yangtze River Bridge The Baishatuo Yangtze River Railway Bridge () is a truss bridge across the Yangtze River between the Jiangjin District and the Dadukou District of Chongqing, China. The bridge carries two tracks of the Chongqing-Guiyang Railway. Completed i ...

. It was the first heavy bridge designed and built using Chinese expertise.

Suicide site

According to state media, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge surpassed the

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as the most frequent suicide site in the world, with more than 2,000 suicides estimated by 2006.

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纪录片《南京长江大桥》 Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge Documentary (Chinese language) (1969)

How to get to the Yangtze River Bridge

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Nanjing Yangtze Tunnel The Nanjing Yingtian Avenue Yangtze River Tunnel, formerly Nanjing Yangtze River Tunnel, is a tunnel under the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China. The tunnel connects the Pukou District to Jiangxin Island in the city of Nanjing. Construction of the ...

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Second Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge The Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge, formerly Second Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China. The bridge spans carrying traffic on the G36 Nanjing–Luoyang Expressway and new route of Chi ...

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Buildings and structures in Nanjing Bridges in Jiangsu Double-decker bridges Road-rail bridges in China Bridges completed in 1968 Bridges over the Yangtze River Transport in Nanjing Truss bridges in China 1968 establishments in China Suicide in China

Suicide site

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