World's highest bridge opens to traffic in China | International

BEIJING, Sept 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The world's highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the same province. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625 metres (2,051 feet) above a river and vast gorge in the country's rugged southern province of Guizhou, also home to the 565-metre Beipanjiang Bridge that is now the world's second highest. Live drone footage broadcast by state media on Sunday showed vehicles traversing the immense structure, its blue support towers partially engulfed in clouds. Crowds of onlookers including project engineers and local officials gathered on the bridge for a ceremony to mark the...