The Jiangjin Baisha Yangtze River Bridge in Southwest China's Chongqing opened to traffic on Jan 26, 2022.
The 3.16-kilometer project consists of a 1.86-km road and a 1.3-km bridge. The double-tower double-cable-plane steel box girder suspension bridge with a span of 590 meters has six lanes and a designed speed of 60 kilometers per hour.
A night view of the Jiangjin Baisha Yangtze River Bridge in Southwest China's Chongqing [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The entire bridge consists of 56 sections and took 12,000 metric tons of steel box girders.
Technologies such as data planning, comparable resource analysis and Building Information Modeling (BIM) were used throughout the construction with due consideration for the complicated land conditions and the busy traffic of the Yangtze River shipping routes and the Chengdu-Chongqing railway.
The main cable of the Jiangjin Baisha Yangtze River Bridge is being erected. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
A main livelihood project in Chongqing, the bridge is a key passage to cross the river under the framework of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Corridor Plan.
Its operation is expected to improve traffic conditions in southwestern areas of Chongqing, making travel easier for 200,000 residents on both sides of the river. It will also shorten the distance and reduce costs of freight transportation across the river.
In addition, the bridge is expected to contribute to optimizing the transportation network in southwest Chongqing and even the Yangtze's entire upper reaches, which will boost high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.
China Construction Sixth Engineering Bureau Corp., Ltd, a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), was responsible for construction of the bridge.
(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)
