Xiangxi Yangtze River Highway Bridge was initially approved

The Xiangxi Yangtze River Highway Bridge in Yichang, Hubei Province, was initially approved by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in recent days, marking a major breakthrough in the preliminary work of the project.

The project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in June 2013. It is a project group consisting of a large number of oversized bridges, tunnels and large landslides. The project boasts a high technological content, a large investment scale, and a construction scale and difficulty to establish the history of independent construction of the Yichang Highway.

According to the preliminary design approval, the Xiangxi Yangtze River Highway Bridge starts from the east side of Guojiaba in Zigui County, connects to Provincial Highway 255, terminates at the Xiangjia Store on the west bank of Xiangxi River in Guizhou Town, and is multiplexed with Provincial Highway 255. The total length is 5.617. Kilometers. Among them, the cross-Yangtze River Bridge is 0.805 kilometers long, the Xiangxi River Bridge is 1.058 kilometers long, the length of the two banks is 3.754 kilometers, and the project budget is 2.099 billion yuan. The total project duration is 4 years (calculated from the date of commencement). The entire highway adopts the first-class highway standard construction, with a design speed of 60 kilometers per hour and a subgrade and bridge width of 23 meters. The trans-Yangtze Bridge uses the main span 498 m long-span steel box truss arch bridge scheme. The Xiangxi River Bridge adopts a 470-m double-tower double-tower composite composite beam cable-stayed bridge scheme.

At present, the Xiangxi Bridge Construction Command is in accordance with the preliminary design approval requirements and organizes domestic authoritative bridge experts to conduct technical demonstration of the bridge's key technologies and report the results of the demonstration to the Ministry of Transport. At the same time, the bidding work was quickly started and the project was started as soon as possible.