The speed at which the bridge was built is unprecedented for an infrastructure project of this scale
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou rises around 625 metres above a river to around the same height as the Shanghai Tower.
A bridge described by Chinese state media as the world’s highest will open to traffic on Sunday in the mountainous southwestern province of Guizhou.
The suspension bridge, which took three years to build, crosses the Huajiang Grand Canyon and is intended to cut travel times across the gorge from two hours to just a few minutes, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Guizhou is already home to almost half the world’s 100 tallest bridges, and the latest project rises 625m (2,050ft) from the river below to its bridge deck.
