{"id":258855,"date":"2025-11-12T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:10:10","slug":"new-bridge-in-south-west-china-collapses-into-mountainside-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/258855\/","title":{"rendered":"New bridge in south-west China collapses into mountainside | China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A newly opened bridge in south-west <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> collapsed on Tuesday, sending slabs of concrete and plumes of dust into the mountainside and water below. No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Videos of the collapse of part of Hongqi Bridge, in the mountainous Sichuan province, were shared widely on Chinese social media. Authorities had closed the 758-metre-long bridge on Monday after cracks appeared on nearby roads. A landslide on Tuesday caused part of the bridge to collapse completely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The bridge was part of a national highway linking Sichuan and Tibet, which runs through a seismically active part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>. The highway runs through the area that was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Construction of the Hongqi Bridge was finished earlier this year, according to a social media post by the contractors Sichuan Road and Bridge Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In recent decades, China has pursued a construction boom in the most mountainous areas of the country, connecting towns and villages that once took days to travel between. In September, China unveiled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge-guizhou-china-worlds-highest-bridge-how-it-feels-crossing\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world\u2019s tallest bridge<\/a> in neighbouring Guizhou province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly opened bridge in south-west China collapsed on Tuesday, sending slabs of concrete and plumes of dust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-258855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}