Suspended above a Chinese river by more than half a kilometre, The Beipanjiang Bridge is the highest bridge ever built in the world. Open to traffic now, the bridge is raised 564 metres above the Beipan River in mountainous southwest China and has a 1,341-metre span that carries four lanes of traffic. Designed by a team of Chinese engineers, the bridge connects the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan, and is expected to reduce journey time between the cities of Liupanshui and Xuianwei from five hours to just two. Before now the world’s highest bridge was the Sidu River Bridge, also in China, positioned 500 metres above a river.
