The Fuling Shibangou Yangtze River 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 ...
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 ...
in
Fuling District
Fuling District () is a district in central Chongqing, China. The area is known for ''zha cai'', a hot pickled mustard tuber, as well as serving as the location of former U.S. Peace Corps teacher Peter Hessler's best-selling memoir '' River Tow ...
,
Chongqing,
China. Completed in 2009, it has a main span of placing it among the
longest cable-stayed bridges in the world.
See also
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List of largest cable-stayed bridges
This list ranks the world's cable-stayed bridges by the length of main span, i.e. the distance between the suspension towers. The length of the main span is the most common way to rank cable-stayed bridges. If one bridge has a longer span than ano ...
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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
External links
References
*http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0032648
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120226214729/http://www.ccrdi.com/Item/1607.aspx
Bridges in Chongqing
Bridges over the Yangtze River
Cable-stayed bridges in China
Bridges completed in 2009
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