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Daxiaojing Bridge will open in 2019 as the longest span arch bridge in Guizhou Province with a giant concrete filled steel tubular span of 450 meters.  Originally planned as a 450 meter span cable stayed bridge, the scheme was switched to an arch so that Daxiaojing Bridge would  to allow the bridge to hold its own title as a new king of Guizhou while the nearby Pingtang Bridge leaders of the Pingtang to Luodian expressway switched to an arch bridge, a move that allowed the bridge to hold its own as a new king of Guizhou while and move out of the shadow of the giant Pingtang Bridge with its much taller and higher profile as the largest viaduct ever built in China.  
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Daxiaojing Bridge will open in 2019 as the longest span arch bridge in Guizhou Province with a giant concrete filled steel tubular span of 450 meters.  Originally planned as a 450 meter span cable stayed bridge, the scheme was switched to an arch, allowing the Daxiaojing Bridge to hold its own in the shadow of the nearby Pingtang Bridge, a colossal cable stayed viaduct with the tallest bridge tower ever built in China at 328 meters.
  
Daxiaojing is one of two massive bridges on the Pingtang to Luodian expressway, the other being the record breaking Pingtang cable stayed bridge with towers as tall as 328 meters.  
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Located at kilometer 70 on the Pingtang to Luodian Expressway, the 1,501 meter long structure will have a span configuration of 9x40 +450 +16x40 meters.
  
  Guizhou having more high bridges then any other region on earth, the engineers of Daxiaojing is one of two giant crossings on the Pingtang to Luodian expressway.  Each of these spans holds records for within Guizhou Province, a in Central Guizhou Province, the other being the lofty Pingtang Bridge with its three towers that soar 300 meters into the sky.  is the longest span railway-only arch bridge in existence and one of the 10 longest arch bridges in the world with a main span of 490 meters.  Located along the Dali to Ruili Railway line in Yunnan Province, the all steel bridge is also unique for having a station in the very center of the span since both ends of the 1,024 meter long structure terminate into long tunnels.
 
  
Although the Nujiang Railway Bridge is 212 meters high when the river is at normal flows, rare one in a hundred year floods can raise the Nu River level another 45 meters making the deck only 167 meters high. The 12 approach spans are 41 meters long while the 14 simple spans above the main arch are 37.2 meters long. 
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The location of the railway bridge is near the famous Songshan Battlefield where the battle of Mount Song took place in 1944 between Chinese Nationalist Forces and the Japanese Army.  The Japanese Army was holed up in deep tunnels and bunkers high along the river slopes to block troops on the Burma Road from crossing the suspension bridge over the Nujiang River.  The slow battle went on for many months with heavy casualties before the Japanese troops retreated and the Burma Road was once again open to aid China with supplies.   
 
  
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The main arch span of the Daxiaojing Bridge is the largest in Guizhou Province at 450 meters.  Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com
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The west railway tunnel is the 4th longest railway tunnel in the world excluding metro lines at 34.54 kilometers.  Only the Gotthard, Seikan and Chunnel are longer. 
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The highline construction towers will rank as the tallest in the world along with the Yachi Railway Bridge in nearby Guizhou Province.
 
 
  
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Nujiang Railway Bridge foundation elevation drawing.
 
  
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A map showing the Burma Road in brown and some of the strategic locations during the Songshan Battle.
 
  
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The original Burma Road with cobblestone bricks.  Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com
 
  
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An older rendering of the Nujiang Railway Bridge.
 
  
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The Nujiang Railway Bridge station will be the highest in the world at 212 meters.
 
  
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Nujiang Railway Bridge satellite image.
 
  
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Nujiang Railway Bridge location map.
 
  
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A map of the Dali to Ruili Railway line with the Nujiang River Bridge crossing at the very bottom left and the Lancanjiang River Bridge crossing in the upper right.
 
  
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Revision as of 00:22, 6 October 2019

Daxiaojing Bridge
大小井特大桥
Dongdangxiang, Guizhou, China
708 feet high / 216 meters high
1,476 foot span / 450 meter span
2019

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Daxiaojing Bridge will open in 2019 as the longest span arch bridge in Guizhou Province with a giant concrete filled steel tubular span of 450 meters. Originally planned as a 450 meter span cable stayed bridge, the scheme was switched to an arch, allowing the Daxiaojing Bridge to hold its own in the shadow of the nearby Pingtang Bridge, a colossal cable stayed viaduct with the tallest bridge tower ever built in China at 328 meters.

Located at kilometer 70 on the Pingtang to Luodian Expressway, the 1,501 meter long structure will have a span configuration of 9x40 +450 +16x40 meters.


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The main arch span of the Daxiaojing Bridge is the largest in Guizhou Province at 450 meters. Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com


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Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com


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Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com


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Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com


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Image by John Filmer.


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Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com


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Image by John Filmer.


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Image by John Filmer.


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Daxiaojing Bridge satellite image.


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Daxiaojing Bridge location map.