A key north-south high-speed railway reached a new milestone when its super bridge traversing China’s second longest river witnessed full connection of trussed steel beams on Friday.
Workers from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd (CREC4) worked on the Yellow River Super Bridge, which uses some 43,000 metric tons of steel on its 1,600-meter-long body, for the HSR linking Xiong’an New Area in North China’s Hebei province with Shangqiu in Central China’s Henan province.
The bridge, linking Taiqian county in Henan and Liangshan county in Shandong, is also the world’s longest ballastless track bridge with continuous girders.
The 552-kilometer Xiong’an-Shangqiu HSR is part of the 639-km Beijing-Xiong’an-Shangqiu HSR, which aims to boost the development of Xiong’an, established in April 2017 by the central authorities.
Spanning the three counties of Xiongxian, Rongcheng and Anxin in Hebei, Xiong’an New Area aims to relieve Beijing of functions nonessential to its role as the national capital in a bid to seek a new development model for densely populated areas.
The new area, dubbed “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come”, will help advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
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