The Yangtze River is the third longest in the world, and it's served as a critical artery in the beating heart of China's economic boom. It's also incredibly wide at points which has forced China to become a top contender in the race to build the most advanced long-span bridges in the world. Taizhou Bridge is definitely one of those bridges.The Taizhou won the 2013 Structural Awards this week, beating out dozens of other remarkable pieces of engineering. It's not the country's longest suspension bridge that would be Xihoumen Bridge but it is the longest of its unique, experimental type. It's the first-ever suspension bridge to link two long spans, each over a kilometer in length, using three 650-foot-tall towers. All in all this $400 million behemoth crosses over 9,650 feet of the massive (and deep, at 90 feet) Yangtze River.
