{"id":42189,"date":"2025-04-19T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=42189"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:54:23","slug":"huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>China is all set to unveil the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, a record-breaking structure that is set to become the world\u2019s highest bridge.<\/p>\n<h2>About Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>suspension bridge\u00a0<\/strong>currently under construction in Zhenfeng County,\u00a0<strong>Guizhou Province, China.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Guizhou province<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<strong>mountainous area\u00a0<\/strong>of China, which is 800 miles west of the city of Shenzhen.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s already home to many impressive structures and buildings.<strong>\u00a0Nearly half\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0<strong>top 100 tallest bridges in the world are in Guizhou<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upon completion,Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge<\/strong>\u00a0will hold the title of the\u00a0<strong>world&#8217;s highest bridge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will be\u00a0<strong>625 meters\u00a0<\/strong>(2,051 feet)\u00a0<strong>above Beipan River level<\/strong>-200m taller than the Eiffel Tower.<\/li>\n<li>That also\u00a0<strong>makes it taller than the Millau Viaduct in France<\/strong>, which at 343 meters (1,125 feet) held the record for the\u00a0<strong>tallest bridge until now.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The bridge is a\u00a0<strong>steel truss suspension bridge<\/strong>\u00a0with a total length of 2,890 metres (9,482 feet).<\/li>\n<li>Altogether, these trusses weigh about 22,000 tons, equivalent to three Eiffel Towers.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s taken 3 and a half years to build, with construction officially starting on 18 January 2022.<\/li>\n<li>The cost of the bridge is estimated at around \u00a3216 million (Rs 2,200 crore).<\/li>\n<li>It will form\u00a0<strong>part of the Shantou\u2013Kunming Expresswa<\/strong>y, a major roadway that\u00a0<strong>connects\u00a0<\/strong>China\u2019s southeastern\u00a0<strong>coastal city of Shantou to Kunming,<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>capital of Yunnan province.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The bridge will cut travel time across the canyon from about one hour to two minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.india.com\/news\/world\/china-to-inaugurate-worlds-highest-bridge-in-to-reduce-travel-time-from-60-minutes-to-just-7764762\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IND<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, a suspension bridge under construction in Zhenfeng County, Guizhou, China, aims to be one of the highest bridges in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":42190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,188,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-42189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge","9":"tag-huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge-upsc","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}