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Nanjing Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge

南京栖霞山长江大桥
Nanjing Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge; 南京栖霞山长江大桥
Coordinates	32°10′41″N 118°56′24″E / 32.1780°N 118.9401°E
Carries	G25 and G2503
Crosses	Yangtze River
Locale	Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Characteristics
Design	Suspension bridge
Total length	5,437 m (17,838 ft)
Width	34.0 m (112 ft)
Height	229 m (751 ft)
Longest span	1,418 m (4,652 ft)
History
Construction cost	6.8 billion yuan
Opened	December 24, 2012
Location

The Nanjing Qixiashan Yangtze River Bridge, formerly Fourth Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a suspension bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China.^[2] The bridge is the 11th longest span in the world and the sixth largest in China.^[3]^[4] The bridge has renamed on 20 December 2019.^[5]

Jiangsu province's first suspension bridge, it lies 10 km downstream of the second Yangtze River Bridge. The bridge connects Hengliang town, a section of Nanjing Raoyue, Nanjing-Nantong Highway, Hongguang village, towns like Long Pao, Xianling and Qilin in Jiangning District, and a section of Raoyue and Shanghai-Nanjing Highway.^[6]

The 4th Nanjing Yangtze twin-tower bridge fashioned after standard expressway, boasts dual six-lane carriageway designed to maintain a 100–125 km an hour traffic.^[7]

References

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^ "定了！二桥三桥四桥成历史，南京5条过江通道更名！". 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
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