Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge is a key construction project during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, and it is a river-crossing "throat" project of Tongjiang-Sanya national highway trunk line and Beijing-Shanghai national highway trunk line in the national "two vertical and two horizontal" highway skeleton. The total length of the bridge is 307 1m and the main span is1385 m. It is a suspension bridge across the river port, and it is the first super-large steel box girder suspension bridge with a span of over 1,000 meters in China. Among the bridges under construction at that time, China was the first and the fourth in the world. The bridge is designed according to the standard of six-lane expressway. The designed driving speed is 100km/h, the deck width is 33.8m, the navigable clear height under the bridge is 50m, and it can be navigable for Panamanian bulk carriers of 50,000 tons. The project started construction on June 22nd 1994 and 165438, and was successfully completed and officially opened to traffic on September 28th 1999. The final account of the project is 2,729.96 million yuan, saving 644.04 million yuan compared with the estimated 3.374 billion yuan, and the construction period is 55 days ahead of schedule, which benefits the bridge itself by 26 million yuan in advance. Jiangyin Bridge is the first super-large bridge in China with a span of over 1000 meters, with reasonable design, scientific management and excellent engineering quality. It represents the highest level of bridge construction in China in the 1990s, and will be a new milestone of bridge construction in China in this century, ranking among the top bridges in the world.

The project was awarded: British Building Association 2000 Quality Project Award; 200 1 Jiangsu Yangtze cup quality engineering award; The first prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology Progress Award 20065438+0; Eugene Figg Gold Award in the 6th Pittsburgh International Bridge Association Congress/KLOC-0, 2002 Luban Award.