The Wenzhou Oujiang North Estuary Bridge in East China's Zhejiang Province, the world's first double-deck steel truss suspension bridge with three towers and four spans, opened to traffic on May 27.
It is the last section of the national highway linking Ningbo in Zhejiang and Dongguan in South China's Guangdong Province.
The Wenzhou Oujiang North Estuary Bridge in East China's Zhejiang Province opens to traffic on May 27. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The project has a total construction length of 7,913 meters including a 2,090-meter main bridge.
The upper layer of the bridge is the six-lane Ningbo-Dongguan Highway and the bottom layer is the G228 National Highway.
The bridge is designed for a daily throughput of 107,000 vehicles.
A view of a tower of the Wenzhou Oujiang North Estuary Bridge in Zhejiang [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Once operational, the bridge will shorten travel time from Leqing in Wenzhou to the Longwan International Airport to 15 minutes. It is expected to improve national highway network, promote highway transport capacity of coastal regions in East China, boost connectivity between the Yangtze River Delta, the west coast of the Taiwan Straits and the Pearl River Delta, and push forward construction of the Guangdong-Fujian-Zhejiang coastal city cluster.
CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Company Ltd. and CCCC First Highway Engineering Group Co., Ltd., both subsidiaries of China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC), participated in the project.
A view of the Wenzhou Oujiang North Estuary Bridge in Zhejiang [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
