Published : 2025-09-30
On 30th September 2000, the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge (蕪湖長江大橋) was completed and opened to traffic.
The Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge is a river-crossing passage in the Jiujiang District of Wuhu City (蕪湖市鳩江區), Anhui Province, situated over the Yangtze River waterway. It is a key transport construction project of China's 9th Five-Year Plan, and is also the first dual-use road and railway bridge in Anhui Province.
The railway section of the bridge has a total length of 10,624.4 metres, and the road section has a total length of 6,078.4 metres; the total project investment was 4.546 billion RMB.
The completion of the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge has improved the layout of China's railway and road networks, connected north-south transport, and promoted the economic development of Wuhu and even the East China region, holding significant transport importance.
The bridge also enables a connection between the three major north-south railway arteries—the Tianjin-Pukou (津浦), Beijing-Kowloon (京九), and Beijing-Guangzhou (京廣) railways—and the Jiangnan railway network, thereby further expanding the function of the Wuhu railway hub and greatly shortening the railway transport distance from the North China and East China regions to the South China and East China coastal regions.
More importantly, the new materials, new structures, new technologies, and new techniques adopted by the Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge have made it the fourth milestone in the history of Chinese bridge engineering, following the Wuhan, Nanjing, and Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridges.
