On December 30, 2019, after more than four years of construction, the world's no. 1 concrete tower bridge built by China communications group was put into operation.

world's highest concrete tower bridge

The total length of pingtang bridge is 2,135 meters. It is a three-tower cable-stayed bridge with double cable planes and a main span of 550 meters. The three main towers are 320 meters high, 332 meters high and 298 meters high, all of which adopt diamond-shaped space structure. Among them, the no. 16 main tower with a height of 332 meters is the world's highest concrete bridge tower. CCCC undertook the construction of the main tower 16 and 17 of the bridge and the installation of the corresponding upper structure, as well as the construction of the auxiliary pier 18 and abutment 19.

guizhou pingtang bridge opened to traffic

As a control project of pingluo expressway in guizhou, after the opening of pingtang great bridge, the passage time of pingtang and luodian counties has been shortened from the original two and a half hours to one hour. It has become a major artery connecting the transverse traffic in southern guizhou, which is of great significance for poverty alleviation and economic development in southern guizhou.