Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (in simplified Chinese 南京长江大桥) is located on the north-west of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, connected with the Pukou urban areas, and is a designed and built our own double-lane highway and railway bridge.  The construction was completed on December 29, 1968.

The upper part was a 4589 meters long road bridge, with the roadway 15 meters wide, and can accommodate four large auto parallel, both sides also have many 2 meter wide sidewalks; lower the railway bridge 6772 meters long, 14 meters wide, paved with two-track, 2 train at the same time off.. Jiang is one of the surfaces of 1577 meters long bridge, and the rest for the bridge approach, highway bridge approach used with Chinese characteristics form the double-way curved arch bridge. Highway is on the bridge railings on both sides of having 200 embossed cast iron, the sidewalk next to have 150 pairs of Magnolia flower-shaped lamps, north and south ends of each of the two bridgehead 70 meters high, has lifts inside may pass the railway bridge, a road bridge and the bridgehead on the observation deck. Fort ago has more than a 10 meter high sculpture of workers, peasants and soldiers.

Nanpu is a beautiful park. Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge there are nine piers, the highest bridge piers from the foundation up to the top 85 meters high, at the end of an area of about 400 square meters, more than a basketball court is also large. The Bridge’s opening span bridge is 160 meters, 10,000 tons ship bridge is feasible. Such as Rainbow Bridge, the whole volley Jiang on, are all very spectacular. Especially in the evening, the bridge railing on the floodlights 1048 Qi-fang, the piers on the 540 metal halide light up the river as the day, plus 150 pairs of highway bridge lantern Magnolia aplanatic, bridgehead and large-scale sculpture on the sodium lamp 228 so that as the bridge across the River on a string of legendary luminous pearl.

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