Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is the world longest bridge in the world which is located in China with a distant of 165Km and it a railway connect the city of Shanghai with the town of Nanjing, the capital of East China’s Jiangsu province and it also a part of railway project from Shanghai to Beijing. Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge has been won the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge in the world in 2010 and currently, there is no any bridge which can break that record.
The construction was started in 2006 and it took around 4 years in order to complete the construction together with 10,000 of workforce with a total cost of around USD8.5 billion. The bridge with long distant of 164Km is constructed across rivers, lakes, canals, low land rice paddies and uneven terrain with 2,000 pillars in order to support the entire bridge with impressive of 450,000 tons of steel structure. The most impressive of this bridge, it can withstand not only natural disasters such as typhoons and magnitude eight earthquakes but also direct impacts from naval vessels that weigh up to 300,000 tons. The bridge was full completed in November 2010 and the grand opening was in June 2011.
Chinese travelers and businessmen benefit from this bridge, since it provide vital transportation tool. The bridge also serves as the main highway across the Hangzhou Bay which reduce travel time from Ningbo to Jiaxing is by over a half since it was 4.5 hours and has reduced to only 2 hours. It is also become a tourist attraction as it has been won a Guinness World Record and there are also available of a conference center, a gas station, a hotel and recreational facilities entailing a lookout tower in order to enjoy view of the the entire bridge for attracting tourists in the halfway.
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