en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Huajiang Canyon Bridge, with its deck 625 meters above the canyon floor, has become the world's highest bridge. Spanning 2,890 meters with a main span of 1,420 meters, the bridge is supported by two towers and carries the Liuzhi-Anlong Expressway through Guizhou Province. It claims the height record from the Duge Bridge, which crosses the same river approximately 200 kilometers upstream.

Construction of the Huajiang Canyon Bridge began in early 2022 and was completed in September 2025. The bridge allows locals to cross the canyon in under a minute, compared to the approximately 70 minutes previously required using old mountain roads and ferries.

During construction, the construction team encountered karst groundwater surges while excavating tunnels at the bridge abutments. Instead of pumping the water away, they contained it and built a reservoir with a capacity of 4,000 cubic meters. The reservoir supplies water not only for the bridge itself but also for rest areas, and irrigates farmland and orchards on the Guanling side of the canyon. The remaining water is pumped to the center of the bridge and released, forming a mist-like waterfall approximately 300 meters wide, with a drop of over 606 meters into the river. At night, lasers illuminate the waterfall to attract crowds. This artificial waterfall is reported to be the world's highest, with spray pressure capable of pushing its height to nearly 100 meters.

During the Spring Festival holiday in February this year, approximately 300,000 people visited the Huajiang Canyon Bridge, with over 70,000 vehicles crossing it. Tourists can take a glass elevator to a café atop one of the bridge towers, 800 meters above the valley floor, or jump from bungee jumping and paragliding facilities installed on the bridge structure.

Between 1929 and 2001, the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, USA, held the title of the world's highest bridge, before being surpassed by the Liuguanghe Bridge in 2001. Since then, China has consistently held the world's highest bridges, many of which span vast canyons and rivers, aiming to improve connectivity in rural areas.

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