Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge

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The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is a landmark double-decked road-rail bridge in Nanjing, China, celebrated as a major 20th-century engineering feat and a symbol of national pride.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf bridge
double-deck bridge
landmark
road-rail bridge
truss bridge
builtBy People's Republic of China NERFINISHED
ChineseName 南京长江大桥
clearanceBelow 24 m
connects Gulou District NERFINISHED
Pukou District NERFINISHED
constructionEndDate 1968
constructionStartDate 1960
country China
crosses Yangtze River NERFINISHED
designedBy Chinese engineers
Mao Yisheng NERFINISHED
hasArtwork reliefs of workers and soldiers
socialist realist sculptures
hasComponent lower rail deck
upper road deck
hasFeature bridge towers
decorative light poles
observation platforms
heritageStatus Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level in China
languageOfName Chinese
locatedIn Nanjing NERFINISHED
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Jiangsu NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone China Standard Time
locatedOnRiverSection middle reaches of the Yangtze River near Nanjing
mainSpanLength 160 m
near Nanjing city center NERFINISHED
notableFor being the first double-decked road-rail bridge designed and built by China without foreign assistance
role in Chinese propaganda during the 1960s
numberOfSpans 9
openedBy People's Republic of China government NERFINISHED
openingDate 1968-12-29
partOf Beijing–Shanghai railway NERFINISHED
China National Highway 104 NERFINISHED
China National Highway 312 NERFINISHED
railwayTracks 2
reopenedAfterRenovation 2018-12
roadLanes 4
significantPeriod 20th century
symbolOf Chinese national pride
self-reliance in engineering
totalLength 4589 m
trafficType motor vehicles
trains
underwentRenovation 2016–2018

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