China News Service, Hefei, October 10 (Liu Honghe, Zhang Jingping, Han Xiang) Recently, at the construction site of the Yulan Avenue Bridge in the Jianghuai Communication Section of the River-to-Huai River Diversion Project, the Yulan Avenue Bridge was built by the Fourth Bureau of China Railway after the successful pouring of the last side of the concrete. The main tower was successfully topped off.

At the construction site for the capping of the main tower of the Yulan Avenue Bridge in the Jianghuai communication section of the Yangtze River-to-Huaihe River Diversion Project, the staff are working intensively and orderly.

Photo by Han Xiang

  According to reports, the Project of Diverting the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River is a large-scale cross-basin water diversion project focusing on urban and rural water supply and the development of Jianghuai shipping, combined with irrigation and water supplementation, and improving the water ecological environment of the Chaohu and Huaihe Rivers.

The standard of the municipal bridge diversion from the Yangtze River to the Huaihe River includes the Qinglong Bridge, the Yulan Avenue Bridge and its connection projects. It is an important part and key project of the Jianghuai communication section of the Yangtze River to Huaihe River Diversion Project, and is the main traffic artery connecting Feixi County, Hefei City from the north to the south.

  It is understood that the Yulan Avenue Bridge is one of the large municipal bridge projects of the River Diversion Project to the Huaihe River, with a total length of 1343.192m, of which the bridge is 779m in length, and the main bridge is the main tower column of a low-tower cable-stayed bridge.

The first stage of concrete pouring started on June 28, 2021, which lasted 103 days.

The completion of this key node on schedule marked that Yulan Avenue Bridge had entered the stage of cable-stayed installation and bridge deck closure, laying a solid foundation for the smooth completion of the entire project.

The main bridge is scheduled to close in December and open to traffic in the first half of 2022.

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