Suspended 300 meters above ground — the world’s tallest and longest “Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge” is completed

▲ In January this year, the first piece of glass was installed on the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge in Hunan. (Photo / CFP)

Reported by Tourism Center / Comprehensive report

The glass bridge over Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in Hunan Province has recently finished installing its walkway glass. Spanning a total length of 430 meters and a width of 6 meters, the bridge hangs about 300 meters above the valley floor, with its entire surface paved in transparent glass and a maximum visitor capacity of 800 people.

When the glass bridge successfully joined its sections last December, mainland media described it as setting ten “world records,” including being the longest, highest, and the world’s first large-scale bridge with glass as the main load-bearing structure — making it a model for international bridge construction.

The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon scenic area once issued a global naming contest offering “10,000 RMB per character,” attracting attention from over a million netizens. The area received 120,000 name submissions. After evaluations by experts, representatives from the construction team, and votes from 160,000 netizens, “Yuntiandu” (Cloudsky Crossing) was ultimately chosen with 38.3% of the support.

The glass bridge was originally scheduled to officially open to visitors on May 1 this year, but construction progress was affected by snow and rain. As a result, related safety inspections and acceptance procedures were postponed. Currently, the main structure of the glass bridge has been completed, the interior decoration of the visitor center is in its final stage, and the expansion project of the external parking lot in the scenic area is under construction.

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