Stunning drone shots as world’s tallest bridge opens to traffic – Watch on TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n“The opening of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge reduces travel time between the two sides from two hours to two minutes,” head of the provincial transport department Zhang Yin said at a press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Nearly half of the world’s highest 100 bridges were located in the hilly province, state news agency Xinhua said.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year in August, a testing team drove 96 trucks onto designated points to test the bridge’s structural integrity.<\/p>\n
The bridge has now set the record for both the world’s highest bridge and largest span bridge built in a mountainous area.<\/p>\n
The world’s tallest bridge, measured in terms of the height of its own structure, remained France’s 343m tall Millau Viaduct.<\/p>\n
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including Christopher Luxon defending the decision not to recognise Palestine, a Silver Ferns star has spoken out about the team\u2019s coaching drama, and 2025\u2019s Bird of the Year is named. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world’s highest bridge has officially opened to traffic in China, state media said, slashing travel time across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,2300,501,156,687,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-49159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-asia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-housing-and-infrastructure","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}