Hongqi Bridge

About

Hongqi Bridge was a 172-metre (564 ft) tall elevated structure across a steep canyon in Barkam in the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, China, spanning the Zumuzu River, eastern tributary of the Dadu River. It was an important waypoint located within Sichuan connecting the rest of China to the Tibet Autonomous Region. The bridge was also part of China National Highway 317 of the Chinese highway network and travels near the Shuangjiangkou Dam. Chengdu Engineering Corporation, a subsidiary of China Power Construction Corporation under the Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, handled the bridge's design and construction. The Sichuan Expressway Construction and Development Group posted a now-deleted video of the final concrete pouring on 14 January 2025, signifying the project's completion after five years of construction. The bridge was opened to traffic on 13 April 2025. On 11 November 2025, just days after the inauguration of the nearby Shuangjiangkou Dam, a landslide caused the collapse of the western bridge approach and its part of the roadbed.

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