The Ehuang Yangtze River Bridge () crosses the
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
in
Hubei
Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...
, China. The bridge carries traffic on
China National Highway 106
China National Highway 106 (G106; , 106 Guo Dao) is a road from Beijing to Guangzhou.
It leaves Beijing at Yuquanying and heads to Gu'an County, Bazhou (Hebei), Kaifeng (Henan), Ezhou (Hubei), and eventually Guangzhou (Guangdong) on the sout ...
between
Echeng,
Ezhou south of the river and
Huangzhou,
Huanggang
Huanggang is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Hubei, Hubei Province, China. It is situated to the north of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and is bounded in the north by the Dabie Mountains and is named after Mount Huanggang, Huang ...
to the north. Construction of the bridge started in 1999 and it was completed in 2002. The bridge is long and has a main span of placing it among the
longest cable-stayed bridges in the world.
See also
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Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
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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 a ...
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051121/http://en.ccccltd.cn/business/infrastructureconstruction/bridge/201011/t20101111_1508.html
Cable-stayed bridges in China
Bridges in Hubei
Bridges completed in 2002
Bridges over the Yangtze River
2002 establishments in China
Echeng, Ezhou
Huanggang
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