Nujiang Liuku Bridge

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　　996.00 yuan. The bridge is 337.52 meters long, with a deck width of 11 meters and a main span of 154 meters. It is a variable-section prestressed continuous box girder bridge spanning the Nujiang River, ranking first among similar types in China. Next to the Nujiang Bridge, there are two other bridges: one is the “Xiangyang Bridge,” built in 1966 and officially opened to traffic on New Year’s Day in 1970. It was a cable-suspended flexible vehicle suspension bridge, 136 meters long and 4 meters wide. Xiangyang Bridge used to be the main bridge connecting the two sides of the river. After 1993, motor vehicles were prohibited from using it, and now it is only open to pedestrians. The tower bridges at both ends of Xiangyang Bridge still retain red-painted lines of Chairman Mao’s poetry: “A bridge flies across the south and the north, turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare” and “Red rain swirls at heart’s command into waves, green mountains turn themselves into bridges.” The horizontal scroll reads “Long Live Chairman Mao,” below which is the name “Xiangyang Bridge.” Doesn’t it have a strong Cultural Revolution vibe? There’s also a mistake in applying this poem here—see if you can spot it!! Yes, the bridges over the Nujiang River all “fly from east to west, not from south to north.” The other bridge is called “Chongyang Bridge,” a suspension bridge built in 1995. This bridge is also only for pedestrians, and the deck typically should not carry more than 40 people at once. Bridges are everywhere on the Nujiang River—it’s a museum of bridges. Traveling upriver, you can see more than 70 bridges of various types such as zip lines, concrete bridges, pedestrian-horse suspension bridges, and rattan-bamboo bridges, witnessing humanity’s progress in conquering nature.