Golden Gate Competes, China Immediately Inaugurates The Highest Suspension Bridge

JAKARTA - China has again shown its ambition in infrastructure development by presenting the highest suspension bridge in the world. This bridge called Huajiang Grand22 Bridge was built in Guizhou Province, a well-known hilly and steep southwestern region of China.

Reporting from the CNN page, the bridge will officially open in June 2025, and immediately displace the Millau Viaduct Bridge in France as the world's highest bridge.

The Huajiang Bridge stands firmly as high as 625 meters above the river's surface, or nearly twice as high as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The bridge stretches over a natural ravine known as the earth crack, the local name of the Huajiang Grand Cupgate.

According to local media Guizhou, this bridge uses a suspension steel structure (steel trus suspension bridge) with a total length of 2,890 meters. Construction starts on January 18, 2022 and is expected to be completed on June 30, 2025.

Zhang Shenglin, Chief Engineer of the Guizhou Highway Group said the project has reached 95% and is ready to open to the public in the second half of this year.

"The giant project that crosses this earth crack' will be the first in the world in two directions. This will be a new symbol of China's infrastructure power." Zhang said, quoted from China Daily.

Not only set a record, this bridge was also built to facilitate access to transportation in the Guizhou mountain area. Currently, the journey across the ravine takes up to two hours. With this bridge, the travel time is cut drastically to just one minute.

Overall, the bridge's steel frame weighs about 22,000 tonnes, equivalent to three Eiffel Towers. The existence of this bridge also adds to the long list of China's ambitious projects in infrastructure. Interestingly, almost half of the 100 highest bridges in the world are currently in Guizhou Province.

With the presence of Huajiang Grand22 Bridge, China has not only made new history in the world of civil engineering, but has also accelerated the development of remote areas that have been difficult to reach.