How did Guizhou Qingshui River Bridge turn a natural chasm into a thoroughfare?

On the Qingshui River in central Guizhou Province, a highway bridge flies between two mountains, turning a natural chasm into a thoroughfare. This expressway is the Guiweng Expressway.

On December 31, 2015, with the opening of the Guiweng Expressway, all 88 counties and cities in Guizhou Province have opened expressways, achieving the goal of "county-county access to expressways".

Since then, this once mountainous plateau has been transformed into a "plain" extending in all directions, and these highways connect not only the mountains and the outside world, but also the people of all ethnic groups in the mountains. Heart.

The Qingshui River Bridge turns a chasm into a thoroughfare

As we all know, traffic congestion was an important reason for Guizhou's sluggish development. Guizhou is mostly plateau and mountainous, and is known as "eight mountains, one water, and one farm". It is the only province in the country without plains.

The road to Shu is difficult, and the road to Guizhou is even more difficult.

Guizhou has a typical karst landform with complex geology and numerous caves. Under such geological conditions, large drilling rigs cannot be used and can only use the most primitive manual digging; piling will encounter karst caves in nine cases, and more than 1,000 cubic meters of concrete will be poured into it and disappear in an instant; there are no transport roads, and the bridge is The "bulk" materials needed cannot be transported in, and there is no place to store them; and the climate conditions are harsh, foggy, rainy, rain and snow account for 70%...

Such a terrain environment requires highway construction. The builders set difficult conditions.

However, what is amazing is that since Guizhou launched the "Three-year Highway Construction Campaign" in 2013, Guizhou has made every effort to break the traffic bottleneck with the courage to tackle difficulties, the attitude of fighting, and the confidence to win. This batch of new expressways, represented by Guiweng Expressway, has not been affected by the harsh natural environment at all. Thanks to the innovative wisdom and hard-working spirit of the builders, the project progresses at a rapid pace. Even the Qingshui River Bridge on the Guiweng Expressway was able to complete the task ahead of schedule despite the high construction difficulty. Guo Junli, chief engineer of CCCC Guiwen Expressway Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Guiwen Company), told reporters: "The construction time of the Qingshui River Bridge was reduced by 40% compared with bridges of the same size."

This bridge was called by the British media The construction time of the Qingshui River Bridge, the "second tallest bridge in the world", is expected to take at least 4 to 5 years, but the speed is incredibly fast - only 29 months from the start of construction to the opening to traffic, a full year ahead of schedule.

“Only think of ways for success, not reasons for failure.”

This slogan hanging horizontally on a 100-meter bridge pier is probably the high-level, The secret to completing projects quickly.

"As of now, the design and construction of the Qingshui River Bridge project has applied for more than 40 national patents, and more than 20 are being prepared for application."

Guiweng Expressway Qingshui River Zhang Mingshan, chief engineer of the bridge project, told reporters, “In order to solve the efficiency problem of transporting materials, the bridge used a thousand-meter large-tonnage cable crane for the first time. This innovative technology shortened the construction period of the bridge by about 7 months. ”

“Everything is centered on the scene, and no one can hold us back.” Qingshui River Bridge project manager Wang Fengcun often uses this sentence to unify the thinking of project department employees. The entire project department is like a set of large gears that mesh closely and push each other. The materials, equipment, technology, and logistics departments operate at high speed, and finally complete this seemingly impossible task.

The Qingshui River Bridge opened to traffic one year ahead of schedule, writing a new height and creating a new speed in the history of bridge construction in China.

“Many of us here have never seen what is on the other side of the mountain for generations, and the highway has made our dreams come true.”

On the last day of 2015, Miao girl Chen Guizhen and Dozens of Miao, Buyi and Tujia girls dressed in costumes gathered at the end of the newly built Qingshui River Bridge and took photos.

Recalling that before the road was built, although the straight-line distance between the hills on both sides of the Qingshui River was only 1 kilometer, it was not easy to walk. Yuan Fuguo, who lives in Baisha Township, had to go down the Yangchang Trail every time he crossed the other side. Go to the bottom of the valley, then take a ferry across the river, and then follow another trail from the bottom of another mountain to the top of the mountain. This journey takes at least 2 hours.

After the Qingshui River Bridge is completed, this journey will only take 3 minutes. At the same time, with the opening of the Guiweng Expressway, the distance from Guiyang to Weng'an has been shortened from the previous 4 hours to 1 hour. It is no longer difficult for people on both sides of the Qingshui River to travel, bringing them closer to the world outside the mountains.

Traffic congestion is an important reason for the poverty of a considerable number of people in Guizhou. The opening of the expressway not only injects new opportunities and vitality into the economy and culture of counties in the province, but also brings closer the connections between counties and cities. , the distance between various counties and cities and Guiyang has changed the external traffic congestion situation, strengthened the contact between poor people and the outside world, turned agricultural products into more commodities, broadened the ways for farmers to increase their income, and steadily increased their income.

The construction of expressways has revitalized the economy of mountainous areas

“After the Guiweng Expressway is opened to traffic, you can get on the expressway that runs through Guiyang, Qiannan, Tongren and other places in 5 minutes. Maoyun Township has transformed. , has become the 'Southern Gate' of Kaiyang and the 'bridgehead' from Guiyang to Qiannan," said a Hong Kong investor.

Weng'an County on the Guiweng Expressway has also become a hot spot for major enterprises to compete for. "Weng'an has the resource advantage of phosphate fertilizer. After the expressway is opened to traffic, our logistics costs can be reduced by 20 yuan per ton," the person in charge of Jinzhengda said. The opening of the expressway will reduce Jinzhengda's costs by nearly 60 million yuan every year.

At present, the eight towns and villages along the Guiweng Expressway have launched a new round of economic layout and set off a new industrial development boom.

The Guizhou Road is difficult, and the Guiweng Expressway above the Qingshui River is very difficult

The Qingshui River Bridge was built in an incredible 29 months

In the past five years, my country has built more than 30,000 kilometers of newly built expressways, ranking first in the world with a total mileage of 130,000 kilometers. The completion and opening of these highways have facilitated people's lives and revitalized the local economy, laying a solid foundation for the concept of the "One Belt, One Road" and the realization of the Chinese dream.

China’s builders not only composed hymns to heroes, but also staged scenes of joys and sorrows. In them, we can see not only the determination and courage to overcome difficulties, but also the wisdom and ability to solve problems. They pave the way for a better life for people of all ethnic groups, and are practitioners of realizing the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation. They not only build pathways on the land of the motherland, but also build them in the hearts of people of all ethnic groups!