Guangdong bridge achieves major feat

A 100-meter-long and 33-meter-wide swivel bridge, the country's largest and heaviest one which spans a major railway and a highway in Guangdong province, turned to its targeted position on Tuesday after rotating for 115 minutes without affecting the traffic.

The swivel bridge, part of the Shantou-Zhanjiang Expressway, rotated perfectly though it towers as high as 25 storeys of a high-rise and is as heavy as 10,000 cars, said Yang Weishuang, an engineering chief from the China Railway No 4 Engineering Group Co Ltd (CREC4), the company building it.

The expressway is considered an achievement in the building of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, that encompasses nine cities in South China's Guangdong province in addition to the two special administrative regions, he said.