Anyone having to travel around the Huajiang Canyon in Guizhou, China now can shorten their journey from two hours to little more than two minutes, as the world’s largest bridge serves as the perfect shortcut.
Bridges are regularly among the most iconic landmarks across the world, as everything from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to Tower Bridge in London serves both a key function and remains a visual attraction too.
You might want to think about traveling to China soon though if you want to complete the list, as the government has recently finished construction of the Huajiang Canyon Bridge, making it not only a visual spectacle but also an incredibly convenient route of travel.
Construction for the bridge officially began back in January 2022, and after a budget of roughly CN¥2.1 billion ($294,962,461) it was finally opened up to the public on September 28, 2025.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge sits 625 meters above the rocky gorge below (Liu Chaofu/VCG via Getty Images)
The jaw-dropping view below of the titular Huajiang Canyon isn’t just for show either, as this bridge officially became the tallest across the entire world, measuring 625 meters (2,051 feet) from the bottom of the bridge to the base of the gorge below.
This is just under double the height of the Empire State Building, and taller than two Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other — not including the tip that as added just a few years ago.
Additionally, it also stretches 2,890 meters (9.482 feet) in length, making it just over 100 meters longer than the aforementioned Golden Gate Bridge, but still considerably shorter than the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge – which is also in China – as that is 164,800 meters long in total.
As reported by Supercar Blondie, one of the biggest features of this bridge is how much it reduces the commute time across the Huajiang Canyon, as it has cut the average commute time down from two hours to just two minutes, making the surrounding rural areas far more accessible to people from now onwards.
It now takes just two minutes to pass across the Huajiang Canyon as opposed to two hours before (Li Yunfeng/VCG via Getty Images)
Understandably you might also be worried about the safety of a bridge this tall, as the prospect of falling over 600 meters into a rocky gorge below isn’t exactly appealing if the bridge were to somehow collapse.
Thankfully the engineers took these fears into consideration and carried out extensive tests on the bridge before it was opened, including one which saw heavy vehicles cover almost every inch of the 2.9 kilometer gap, and it passed with flying colors.
Featured Image Credit: Li Yunfeng/VCG via Getty Images
The world has been left puzzled after China mysteriously cut itself off from the global internet for over 60 minutes last week. with many people speculating on why it might have happened.
Taking place last Wednesday (August 20), a Chinese internet blackout occurred, impacting services from the likes of Apple and Tesla.
According to experts, this may have been due to a configuration error or could have been an intentional test of new GFW capabilities, which refers to a censorship and surveillance system used by the Chinese government to regulate the internet within mainland China, known as the Great Firewall of China.
An activist group known as Great Firewall Report noticed the blackout and reported on it, writing that the outage cut off all traffic to TCP port 443, which is a standard port used for carrying HTTPS traffic.
China mysteriously cut itself off from the global internet for over 60 minutes (Zhang mengyang/Getty Images)
On its website, the group wrote: “Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443.”
