China is getting a pretty massive Christmas present this year with the opening of the second-highest suspension bridge in the world.
The Daily Mail reported that engineers in China are currently wrapping up work on the sky high 1,332-foot-tall Qingshui River Bridge that’s set to open Dec. 25.
The bridge is just over 3,700 feet long. However, it’s looking up at the bridge that’s really impressive as it stands more than five hundred feet taller than America’s most famous suspension bridge, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Not only is the bridge impressive in its size, it’s also going to make travel quite a bit easier in the region. The bridge cuts the commute between Guiyang and Weng’an from 100 miles to just 23 miles. Granted, since terrain was the primary reason the commute was difficult before, the construction wasn’t exactly easy.
“The biggest challenges mainly lie in the location of the bridge in mountainous areas, where we are unable to use large machinery to transport the holistic girders in place. Therefore, we cut the girders into small sections and and assemble them after they were transported to the construction site,” chief engineer Shang Mingshan said.
The Qingshui River Bridge is only shorter than the 1,627-foot Sidu River Bridge, which is also in China.
