Guihua Bridge

Guihua Bridge
归化大桥
Dafang, Guizhou, China
354 feet high / 108 meters high
394 foot span / 120 meter span
2012

One of many large road crossings in and around the Bijie Airport area, the Guihua Bridge carries traffic from the nearby G56 Bridge to the Bijie Airport Expressway. The bridge crosses the Guihua River with a span configuration of 3x30 + 66+120+66 meters.

Just upstream of the Guihua beam bridge are the two Guihua arch bridges that carry the 2-lane Guibi highway and the local country road 4 about 70 meters above the canyon. The Guibi highway arch is the more interesting of the two as it was constructed in 2004 to replace a defective truss arch. The older arch bridge was 154 meters long and had damaged bridge members that forced its closure after just 9 years of use. On December 26th, 2003 the structure was blown up and removed with the replacement arch constructed in just one year. The new arch is 164 meters long with a span of 113 meters.