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World's highest bridge opens to traffic in Guizhou

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September 29, 2025

The world’s highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sept 28, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the same province.

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625m above a river and vast gorge in the country’s rugged southern province of Guizhou, also home to the 565m Beipanjiang Bridge that is now the world’s second highest.

Live drone footage broadcast by state media on Sept 28 showed vehicles traversing the immense structure, its blue support towers partially engulfed in clouds.

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