There were 805,300 highway bridges across China at the end of 2016, said Ministry of Transport chief engineer Zhou Wei.
According to Zhou, seven of the world’s top 10 cable-stayed bridges by main span length are in China, with the country also having six of the top suspension bridges, six of the top arch bridges and five of the top beam bridges.
China had completed 22,000km of high-speed railway lines as of last year, and bridges accounted for over 50% of that length, said Yan Hexiang, director of the technology and law division of the National Railway Administration.
The total length of China’s high-speed rail will reach 38,000km by 2025, and 45,000km by 2030, he said.
There are 135 bridges crossing the main course of the Yangtze River, the world’s third and Asia’s longest river, 32 of which are under construction, said Liu Ziming, president of China Zhongtie Major Bridge Engineering Group.
