Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge

Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge

The Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge was a key transportation project during China’s Ninth Five-Year Plan period, and its scale ranks first among all Yangtze River bridges in China. The bridge features a low-tower cable-stayed design with a main span of 312 meters, making it the longest combined road-and-rail bridge span in China to date. The project employed over 10 new technologies, structures, materials, and construction techniques, significantly advancing China’s design, manufacturing, and installation capabilities for combined road-and-rail bridges. It set 14 national records in bridge construction and won the 2001 Luban Prize, China’s highest honor in construction.

The Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge has a total length of 10,020.96 meters, with 550,000 cubic meters of concrete and 110,000 tons of structural steel used. Its overall engineering volume and scale surpass the combined totals of both the Wuhan and Nanjing road-and-rail bridges. The bridge’s technological content, engineering scale, and construction quality are world-class and leading in China.

The construction of the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge took just 42 months, achieving a record speed of 251 meters of bridge completed per month in large-scale railway bridge projects in China. The completed superstructure and substructure of the bridge were inspected and evaluated by experts from the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport, achieving a 100% pass rate, 100% excellence rate for individual sections, and an overall quality assessment that exceeded national excellence standards.

The construction of the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge took just 42 months, achieving a record speed of 251 meters of bridge completed per month in large-scale railway bridge projects in China. The completed superstructure and substructure of the bridge were inspected and evaluated by experts from the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport, achieving a 100% pass rate, 100% excellence rate for individual sections, and an overall quality assessment that exceeded national excellence standards.