Significant HSR progress on Yellow River bridge

A key north-south high-speed railway reached a new milestone when its super bridge traversing China's second longest river witnessed full connection of trussed steel beams on Friday.

Workers from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd (CREC4) worked on the Yellow River Super Bridge, which uses some 43,000 metric tons of steel on its 1,600-meter-long body, for the HSR linking Xiong'an New Area in North China's Hebei province with Shangqiu in Central China's Henan province.

The bridge, linking Taiqian county in Henan and Liangshan county in Shandong, is also the world's longest ballastless track bridge with continuous girders.