Concreting of a record long steel-concrete composite truss-beam bridge in northwest China was completed

Concreting of a record long steel-concrete composite truss-beam bridge in northwest China was completed Friday.

The super large bridge at Houhecun is the key part of a 268.5-km railway that connects Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province, with the city of Pingliang in Gansu Province.

The bridge is built with 82-meter trussed beams of 80-meter clear span, the country's first such railway bridge. It is the longest among all the steel-concrete composite truss-beam railway bridges in the world.

Construction of the bridge started in July 2010, and the railway is scheduled to be completed in 2012, which will join with the country's northwestern express railway network and connect Lianyungang-Lanzhou railway with Baoji-Zhongwei railway.

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