Constructing Bridges and Roads to Bring Benefit to People' s Livelihood

In order to meet the needs of economic development and improve the people's living standard, bridges and roads have been constructed on a grand and spectacular scale throughout the country in the past 30 years in the Pearl River delta, the Yangtze River basin and the Yangtze River delta. Abiding by the purpose of absorbing others' merits and constructing independently and adhering to the guideline of integrating resources and innovating independently , 440, 000 different kinds of bridges were built, the span records of girder bridges, arch bridges and cable bridges were broken and the difficulties in key construction techniques were broken through continuously. Representing by Sutong Bridge, the successful construction of a number of world first class bridges indicates our national bridge construction technologies are come up to advanced world standards and ranked with the powerful bridge construction countries in the world.