The Yachi 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 ...

Guizhou Guizhou (; Postal romanization, formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in the Southwest China, southwest region of the China, People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the pr ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

. The bridge is the fourth highest in the world and also one of the longest cable-stayed bridges with a main span of . The west and east towers are and in height, respectively. placing the bridge among the tallest bridges in the world. The bridge crosses the

Yachi River The Wu River () is the largest southern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nearly its entire length of runs within the isolated, mountainous and ethnically diverse province of Guizhou. The river takes drainage from a watershed. The river flows ...

between Qianxi County in

Bijie Bijie () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guizhou Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the north and Yunnan to the west. The Daotianhe Reservoir, located to the north of the town was commissioned in 1965 with a rated annual capacit ...

and

Qingzhen :''The term ''Qingzhen'' can also refer to Chinese Muslims, Chinese Islamic cuisine or the Hui ethnic group.'' Qingzhen () is a county-level city under the administration of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, China. It is located to the w ...

in the city of

Guiyang Guiyang (; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), historically rendered as Kweiyang, is the capital of Guizhou province of the People's Republic of China. It is located in the center of the province, situated on the east of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau, ...

along the Qianxi Expressway. The Yachi River Bridge is officially 440 metres high; however, it crosses over the Dongfeng Dam reservoir so it is actually above water level.

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