The Yangtze River is the third farsighted in the world , and it ’s serve as a decisive artery in the beating heart of China ’s economic gold rush . It ’s also incredibly broad at detail — which has forced China to become a top contender in the race to build the most advanced long - span bridgework in the world . Taizhou Bridge is definitely one of those nosepiece .
The Taizhou won the 2013Structural Awardsthis week , beating out twelve of other remarkable pieces of engineering . It ’s not the country ’s farseeing suspension bridge — that would beXihoumen Bridge — but it is the longest of its unique , observational type . It ’s the first - ever suspension span to link two long spans , each over a kilometer in duration , using three 650 - foot - marvellous towers . All in all this $ 400 million colossus crosses over 9,650 understructure of the massive ( and deep , at 90 feet ) Yangtze River .
The factories and farms along the Yangtze get almost a third of China ’s GDP , so it ’s no wonder that it ’s served as the catalyst in China ’s incredible infrastructural driving . This looping , 3,900 - Admiralty mile recollective artery is host to the largest hydro - electric ability post in the world , the Three Gorges Dam , as well as at least three of the world ’s ten longest bridges .
At the same time , the Yangtze has become a focal stage in China ’s ecological crisis . This is the same consistency of weewee where16,000 dead pigswere found in earlier this fall . It ’s also been periodicallydyed blood - redby toxins . As a result , the Taiwanese government is attempting to right decades of legal injury — a decade - old program that reconnects lakes to the river is seeing some forward motion . That does n’t imply it ’s swimmable — but it ’s a outset . [ Structural Awards ]
http://gawker.com/5990453/6000-disease+ridden-dead-pigs-found-clogging-a-river-in-shanghai
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