The Anqing Yangtze River Railway Bridge is 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 ...

opened 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 ...

near Anqing,

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. The bridge has a main span of , making it the longest cable-stayed railway bridge in the world. The bridge carries two rail tracks on the high-speed Nanjing–Anqing Intercity Railway line. It significantly reduces the rail travel time between

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 ...

and Anqing from eight hours to just 90 minutes.

Construction

Construction of the bridge began on March 20, 2009, and was completed in December 2015. The total cost of the project was 1.43 billion yuan.

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Construction

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