High bridge cable strung in Sichuan Province

Workers install the cable for Xingkang Bridge across the Luding River in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on April 5, 2017. Spanning 1,100 meters, the cable backstay is at least 269 meters above the river as part of construction on an expressway that links Ya'an City and Kangding County in the province. The suspension bridge scheduled for completion in August 2018 will have a dual carriageway with four lanes of traffic in each direction allowing the vehicles to travel at 80 kilometers an hour. Some 34,034 cables will be used in the construction, with the total length reaching 60,000 kilometers if all the cables were laid along in a single line. [Photo: VCG]