The Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge () is a combined highway and railway 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 ...

. The bridge is located in

Wuhu Wuhu () is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Anhui province, China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and Tongling to the southwest, Hefei city to the northwest, Ma'ansh ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

, China, and was completed in 2000. The

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 ...

consists of a main span and two side spans and has, together with all approaches, a total length of . The bridges carries four lanes of the

G5011 Wuhu–Hefei Expressway The Wuhu–Hefei Expressway (), commonly referred to as the ''Wuhe Expressway'' () is an expressway that connects Wuhu, Anhui, China and Hefei, Anhui. It is a spur of G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway and is completely in Anhui Province Anhui ...

on the upper deck and the dual-track

Huainan Railway Huainan () is a prefecture-level city with 3,033,528 inhabitants as of the 2020 census in north-central Anhui province, China. It is named for the Han-era Principality of Huainan. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south, Lu'a ...

on the lower deck.

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Bridges in Anhui Bridges over the Yangtze River Bridges completed in 2000 Cable-stayed bridges in China Road-rail bridges in China Double-decker bridges 2000 establishments in China Extradosed bridges {{PRChina-bridge-struct-stub

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