The Yunyang Yangtze River Bridge is an asymmetric

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 ...

across 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 ...

Yunyang County Yunyang County () is a county in the northeast of Chongqing Municipality, China, bordering Hubei province to the south. In eastern Chongqing is Yunyang County with over 1,400 years of history and a reputation as the 'Bright Pearl of Chongqing'. T ...

, Chongqing, China. Completed in 2005, the bridge has a total length of including approaches on either bank. The main bridge is long, with the longest span of . The bridge sits above the river. The asymmetric design of the bridge is different from most cable-stayed bridges. The southern tower is higher than the northern tower.

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Bridges in Chongqing Bridges over the Yangtze River Cable-stayed bridges in China Bridges completed in 2005 {{PRChina-bridge-struct-stub

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