World's Highest Bridge 570 Meters above Valley is a marvel of China

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The world's highest bridge, which rises 570 meters above a valley, opened in southwest China.  It has a height equivalent to a 200-storey building, and the Beipanjiang Bridge links southwest China’s Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. It has the rare honor to be the highest in the world, by the vertical distance from the bridge deck down, to the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span.

It has a 720-metre-wide span (2,363 feet) and is a part of the Hangrui Highway.

The structure overlooks the Beipanjiang Valley. The entire 4-lane divided highway stretches to an incredible marvel covering a distance of 3,405-kilometres on the national motorway linking Hangzhou city in southern China with Ruili city on the China-Myanmar border.

There was the use of concrete filled steel troughs which were located within the back spans trusses, to keep the deck from getting pulled up, from the downward forces, of the central span truss. The tower tops are more than 735 meters above the Beipan River surface. The original paint scheme was blue for the truss deck sections but they decided to have orange later.

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