GUIYANG, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province will pour more investment into road construction during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) to bring its total expressway mileage to 9,500 km. The mileage of expressways in Guizhou has so far reached 8,368 km, according to a press conference held Tuesday by the information office of the provincial people's government.
Bridges are an unmistakable feature of road construction in southwest China's Guizhou Province due to its complex terrain. "It is a very challenging task to build bridges in a terrain such as Guizhou because it is difficult to find flat sites for installation work," said Huang Kunquan, a bridge expert and former deputy chief engineer of the Guizhou Expressway Group Co.
Above the grand canyon of Huajiang River, dubbed the "earth crack," a mega bridge is under construction in Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun city, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Photo taken in January 2023 shows the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge under construction in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
Southwest China's Guizhou Province has explored new development models of tourism that integrate bridges with extreme sports, educational tours, and scenic areas. The province's department of transport has been promoting such models by focusing on the Baling River Bridge, the Pingtang Bridge, and the Xijiang service area along the Kaili-Leishan expressway.
