OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2011. The initial design of Wangdong Cross-Yangtze River Bridge was officially approved by Ministry of Transport recently, marking a promising beginning of construction within this year.

The bridge, costing about 5 billion yuan, starts from Cha'an of Wangjiang County to the north, and ends at Liangtian of Dongzhi County to the south, and it is the first bridge stretching across Yangtze River on its upper reaches in Anhui Province.

The bridge is 38 kilometers long and 33 meters wide, with two-way six lanes and designed speed of 100 kilometers per hour, which consists of a passage across the river for Jinan-Guangzhou Expressway, as well as for Shangqiu-Jindezhen Expressway.

The construction period is estimated to be 4 years.