Since the successful erection of the first steel girder for Yunnan Longjiang Grand Bridge on July 30, all staff and workers of the project office made persistent efforts to fastly push on the erection at bridge site, and 57 girder segments had been finished up to September 11, which accounted for nearly 60 percent of the total 97 segments.

The construction of Longjiang Grand Bridge now presented a good situation of safety and steadiness, high quality and smooth progress, and the erection of the whole bridge is anticipated to be completed in October.

As the crucial passage from Baoshan to Myitkyina in Myanmar, Longjiang Grand Bridge is the control project of the arterial highway network in Yunnan Province. It is a double tower single span steel box girder suspension bridge. The total weight of steel box girders is 14,326 tons. There is a distance of 280m from the bridge deck to the river surface and of 470m from the top of the highest tower to the river surface. The length of main span is 1,196m, which makes the bridge the first steel box girder suspension bridge with the super-long span in Yunnan. It will be the greatest suspension bridge in the mountain area in Asia when it is completed.