A miraculous crossing in Hunan province creates opportunities in expanding revenues in the countryside
One of countless engineering marvels in China, the Aizhai Bridge in Hunan, which opened in 2012, has not only vastly improved transport in a particularly mountainous area of the province, but also become somewhat of a tourist attraction itself.
Located in Hunan’s Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, the Aizhai Bridge has a span of 1,176 meters above a 355-meter drop to the Dehang Grand Canyon floor below.
The spectacular structure, which on certain days appears to hang in the clouds, was built to solve a practical problem.
Since the Hunan-Sichuan highway, the G319, opened in 1936,…