New Guizhou projects bridge valleys, changing lives

Home to award-winning bridges

Guizhou is home to all four types of bridges; suspension cable, cable-stayed, arched and beam.

"There are around 28,000 bridges on roads in Guizhou. Linked together, they would extend more than 5,400 km, further than the distance of a round trip between Beijing and Guiyang, the provincial capital, and long enough to run across the Chinese mainland," said Xu Xianghua, chief engineer at the Guizhou transport commission.

By the end of last year, nearly half of the world's 100 tallest bridges, and four of its 10 tallest bridges, were in Guizhou. Fifteen have won 25 domestic and international awards. Four have won the Gustav Lindenthal Medal, one of the most prestigious bridge construction awards in the world, a prize only five other bridges in China have won.