Guanxing Highway Bridge in Beipanjiang Grand Canyon, Zhenfeng, Guizhou

It can be said that several bridges on the Huajiang River represent several different centuries. The cable-stayed bridge was built in the18th century, and the reinforced concrete Panguixiang highway bridge was built in the 20th century, and this modern cable-stayed elevated highway bridge is the product of the 218th century.

Guanxing high-grade highway from Guanling County to Xingren County crosses Beipanjiang River and becomes a new traffic artery connecting the two sides in 2 1 century, which is far behind the ancient post road in Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Yunnan-Guizhou Highway in the 20th century. This bridge has also become the key and throat of the new Yunnan-Guizhou passage. The Beipanjiang Gorge in this section is particularly steep and the current is particularly turbulent. The depth of the valley exceeds 1km, which is daunting. To cross such a valley, you can imagine the grandeur of this bridge. Its length is 388 meters, and its height from the water surface is 486 meters, ranking first in China and second in Asia among similar bridges.

The canyon that the bridge crosses is sparsely populated and the original ecological environment is well preserved. In the canyon, the mountains and rivers are clear, the grass is abundant and the trees are luxuriant, wild boars flock, monkeys frolic, egrets fly, karst wonders of karst landforms are everywhere, and scenes described in Tang poetry and Song poetry are everywhere. Today, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River can no longer hear "the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying" and can no longer see "the mountains are full of red leaves like rosy clouds", but they can hear and see it here. A geologist of Chinese Academy of Sciences said after inspecting Beipanjiang Gorge: "Everything we lost in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River can be recovered in Beipanjiang Gorge of Guizhou." A writer once said: "Beipanjiang Canyon can help me find the artistic conception of Tang poetry and Song poetry that have been lost for thousands of years."