Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge

The Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge, formerly Second Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China.^[2] The bridge spans 628 metres (2,060 ft) carrying traffic on the G36 Nanjing–Luoyang Expressway and new route of China National Highway 104. When it was completed it was the third longest cable-stayed span in the world.^[3] As of 2013^[update] it is still among the 20 longest spans. The bridge crosses from the Qixia District in south-east of the river over to Bagua Island. The bridge was renamed on 20 December 2019.^[4]

Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge 南京八卦洲长江大桥
Coordinates	32.16258°N 118.836196°E / 32.16258; 118.836196
Carries	G36 and G104
Crosses	Yangtze River
Locale	Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed
Total length	1,238 m (4,062 ft)
Width	37.2 m (122 ft)
Height	195.41 m (641 ft)
Longest span	628 m (2,060 ft)
History
Construction start	October 1997 (1997-10)
Construction cost	$400 million[1]
Opened	March 2001 (2001-03)
Statistics
Toll	yes
Location

The bridge was inaugurated for traffic on March 26, 2001, with its name etched by Jiang Zemin, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.^[5]

See also

• List of largest cable-stayed bridges
• List of tallest bridges in the world
• Yangtze River bridges and tunnels
• Media related to Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge at Wikimedia Commons