Dragon Boat Festival Tour @ Gansu Yellow River First Bridge

#Dragon Boat Festival good places

Lanzhou Yellow River Iron Bridge, also known as Zhongshan Bridge, is located in the middle section of Binhe Road at the foot of Baita Mountain in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. It was built in a collaborative model with a design by an American bridge company, construction by the German firm of Taylor & Co., and construction by Chinese craftsmen.

The Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge is 233.5 meters long and 8.36 meters wide. It has four piers and five holes, and the span of each hole is 45.9 meters. The upper structure is a trapezoidal through-type steel truss. Each span is a truss system composed of an over-static structure and is divided into five rectangles by vertical steel frames.

The Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge is the first bridge in the entire northwest region of China in modern history that was built with foreign technology. This special construction background and construction period make the Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge the key to studying modern history and it occupies a unique position in China's architectural history.

As a transportation structure project, the Lanzhou Yellow River Bridge embodies the style, school and characteristics of the development of architectural art during the Westernization Movement in modern Chinese history. At the same time, the transportation process of materials needed to build the bridge also created a miracle in modern transportation history.

🌹🌹Friends who come to Lanzhou, Gansu during the Dragon Boat Festival, remember to check in.

Detailed address: Next to the Yellow River Mother Statue, Nanbinhe East Road

Post by DH 2022 | May 23, 2025