“Sleeping dragon”. Looks like China’s first cable-stayed bridge (photo)

Shanghai is famous not only for its ancient traditions and culture, and high-tech facilities.

One of the main attractions of this city can be called a giant (and incidentally, the first in the country) cable-stayed Nanpu bridge.

Publication of Zippy Traveler (@zippytraveler) May 18, 2018 8:11 PDT

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Its dimensions are impressive: two reinforced concrete towers rise 150 meters, each of them is attached by 22 pairs of steel cables supporting the structure, and the total length of the bridge is 8346 meters.

Publication from Dunia Teknik Sipilä (@duniatekniksipil) on 31 October 2017 at 4:13 PDT

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The bridge was built in 1991, is the ferry across the Huangpu river. But the most important advantage and highlight Nanpu — circular design of the overpass, which allows economical use of space.

The local bridge is very happy and say that he fits in with the concept of the city, resembling a sleeping dragon with a coiled tail.

Publication from Jiejun Xu (@vincentxj777) 25 Mar 2018 at 9:40 am PDT

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