The 984-foot drop will certainly give you a fright as you look through its glass bottom. This statistic shows the number of public road bridges in China from 2010 to 2019. And Qingdao, China's Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest bridge over water, coming in at 41.58 kilometers, or around 46 miles long. Built between 595 and 606 C.E, this stone bridge is one of the oldest arch bridges in the world. 10) Line 1, Wuhan Metro Bridge. The Runyang Bridge is a huge bridge complex that crosses the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province, China.The complex consists of two major bridges … This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world’s oldest open- stone segmental arch bridge. Location: Shiniuzhai National Geological Park, China. Chinese built big bridges of wooden construction, and later stone bridges, and the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge built around 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty. An empty bridge is seen after the police closed the West Lake before G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China September 1, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song Reuters / Thursday, September 01, 2016 Runyang Bridge. But it takes more than length to make a great bridge: Advances in design software and … This glass bridge stretches 1,410 feet between two mountains. The bridge is located in Zhao county, Hebei province, and spans the Xiao River. A Bridge in China.jpg 592 × 425; 54 KB A picture from China every day 067.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 4.18 MB A wooden pedestrian bridge across two sides of … After its opening, the bridge had to be temporarily closed because it was handling 10 times as many as the allotted 8,000 visitors per day. The Anji Bridge, commonly known as the Zhaozhou bridge, is the oldest known bridge in China, with a history dating back to the Sui dynasty. A general view of Line 1 Metro bridge on April 1, 2017 in Wuhan, Hubei province China. Source: Liang Sicheng, 1982: 240 Liang viewed the bridge as an “astonishing” and “superb” structure, noting that a Today, this structure is considered China’s oldest standing bridge and is an iconic element in China’s pantheon of “inventions” and “firsts.” Anji Bridge, Hebei, 1933. southern Hebei province. The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, which China claims to be the world's longest, is now open. https://traveltips.usatoday.com/beautiful-bridges-china-101440.html In 2019, there had been approximately 878,300 road bridges in China. Read more