Crosses Pearl River Opened 9 June 1997 Total length 3,618 m | Construction started 1991 Height 148 m | |
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Design Suspension bridgeSegmental concrete bridge Longest span 888 m (2,913 ft) (suspension)270 m (890 ft) (segmental) Construction cost US$370 million (segmental) Similar Pearl River, Shenzhen–Zhongshan Bridge, Haizhu Bridge, Huangpu Bridge, Weiyuan Paotai | ||
China guangzhou pearl river bridge canton tower
The Humen Pearl River Bridge (simplified Chinese: 虎门大桥; traditional Chinese: 虎門大橋; pinyin: Hǔmén Dàqiáo; Jyutping: Fu2mun4 Dai6kiu4) is a bridge over the Humen, Pearl River in Guangdong Province, southern China. It consists of two main spans - a suspension bridge section and a segmental concrete section. It connects the Nansha District of Guangzhou to Humen Town of Dongguan. Completed in 1997, the suspension bridge has a main span of 888 meters, and the segmental concrete section's main span of 237 meters is among the longest such spans in the world. It forms part of the G9411 Dongguan–Foshan Expressway. A newer bridge known as Humen Erqiao (Chinese:虎门二桥), built to reduce the traffic problems on the Humen Bridge, is under construction.
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The bridge is divided into five sections: the east approach, the suspension bridge section, the middle approach, the segmental concrete section, and the west approach. Hurricanes are common occurrences, so the design wind speed at the bridge deck level was established at 61 m/s.