Wujiang Bridge Mozhai

Wujiang Bridge Mozhai
磨寨乌江特大桥
Pengshui, Chongqing, China
870 feet high / 265 meters high
971 foot span / 296 meter span
2024

The highest extradosed bridge in the world, the 708 meter long Wujiang Bridge Mozhai is part of a new G65 expressway link that goes south from Pengshui City to the Youyang to Yanhe Expressway. The main span configuration of 153+296+153 meters is supported on towers as tall as 256 meters.

The tower top height above the deck is 44.0 meters with another 13.5 meters of ornementation. The main pier adopts a single-leg variable-section hollow thin-walled pier with a maximum height of 216 meters and 185 meters, and the maximum height from the top of the tower ornamentation to the foundation on the west tower is 287 meters.

There are more high bridges over the Wujiang then any other river on earth.