Dandong Yalu River Bridge is located in Zhenxing District, Dandong City, Liaoning Province, is a national border bridge across China and North Korea. It is a monument of history, baptized by the fire of war against the U.S. and North Korea, bearing in mind the great friendship between the people of China and North Korea condensed with blood and life. Now, we can still clearly see the numerous bullet marks and residual bullet holes on the bridge's iron frame.
Bridge Composition
There are five Yalu River bridges connecting China and North Korea:
Changhui Bridge
Changhui Bridge (Sino-North Korean Changhui International Bridge), connecting Changbai County in Northeast China with Huishan City, is located above the Yalu River in Changbai Korean Autonomous County. It is the first bridge on the upper Yalu River at the border between China and North Korea. The bridge was first built by the Japanese in 1936 with concrete abutments and larch bridge decks, and was destroyed by a flood in 1943, repaired and destroyed by U.S. airplanes in 1950, repaired after the armistice, and destroyed again by a flood in 1964. Since then, the two sides of the passage of trade and transportation by wooden boat ferry.
Linjiang Yalu River Bridge
Linjiang Yalu River Bridge, located in Linjiang City, is a national border bridge between China and North Korea. It is a monument of history, through the baptism of war against the United States and North Korea, engraved with the great friendship between the people of China and North Korea condensed with blood and life. Back then, 350,000 men of my volunteer army crossed the Yalu River majestically from this bridge. The bridge was built in 1935, in August 1950, the U.S. Army deployed dozens of planes to invade the airspace over the Linjiang River, to the Yalu River Bridge and the nearby Linjiang Railway Station bombed indiscriminately, the bridge close to the end of the North Korean bombing was destroyed, in May 1955, China and North Korea will be restored to the Bridge of Friendship open. We can still clearly see the numerous bullet marks and residual bullet holes on the bridge iron frame. on August 11, 1950, when four enemy planes were bombing a train full of combat supplies parked at the Linjiang Railway Station, the Linjiang train driver Xu Guochen, risking his life, rushed into the cab of the locomotive, and drove the train towards the waiting hole, the enemy planes immediately followed and pursued the bombing and swept the head of the train, and Xu's four fingers were knocked out of the locomotive. In 1951, Xu Guochen was honored with the title of "Special Meritorious Minister for the Resistance to the U.S.A. and Aid for Korea" and was received by Chairman Mao. Xu Guochen's heroic deed of sacrificing his life to save the train soon spread all over the country, greatly encouraging the nation's military and civilian defense of the country, the anti-U.S. and support for North Korea. Come to the bridge, people pay homage to the spirit, remember the martyrs, hoping for world peace forever, as if in front of the eyes of the Volunteer Army again saw the iron flow rolling, the majestic posture of the strong brigade and style.
Jian Yalu River Bridge
Jian Yalu River Bridge, the old bridge is located in Dandong City. It is located in Jilin Province, Ji'an City District, 15 kilometers east, 589.23 meters long, 5 meters wide, 16 meters high, *** 20 bridge holes. To the 11th pier center to meet the line delineated as the two sides of China and North Korea each maintenance demarcation line, of which the Chinese side 324.23 meters, the Korean side 265 meters. Yalu River Bridge is nine hundred and forty-six point two meters long, of which the Chinese side of the bridge is five hundred and sixty-nine point nine meters long.
Dandong Yalu River Bridge
Dandong Yalu River Bridge is located in the Zhenxing District of Dandong City, Liaoning Province, and there are actually two bridges, less than a hundred meters apart.
The first bridge for the bridge, destroyed as a waste bridge, only half of the bridge, the North Korean side only left a few bare piers. 1950 November - February 1951, by the U.S. aircraft bombed many times.
The second bridge, the Yalu River Bridge, is still in use and is a link between China and North Korea. Construction began in 1937 and it was commissioned in 1943. The bridge goes up to the railroad and down to the highway. At that time, the highway bridge deck was paved with wooden planks, and in 1977, it was replaced with cement planks and has not been repaired since then. Years without overhaul of the Yalu River Bridge steel girders have rusted, road damage up to more than three hundred, some of the bridge deck plate displacement, fracture, resulting in the bridge load-bearing capacity to weaken.
Dandong Bridge bridge overhaul project investment of more than two million yuan, invested by the Shenyang Railway Bureau, Shenyang Railway Bureau, Dandong Engineering Section construction. The project is closed for day and night construction from Thursday to Sunday at 23:00, and the rest of the time normal clearance. This project will be completed in late October 2014. After this repair, the load-bearing capacity of the bridge deck will be increased from ten tons to twenty tons. While the bridge is being repaired, only tourist and trade vehicles will be allowed to travel from Monday to Wednesday, while the road section will be closed from Thursday to Sunday, with normal rail traffic remaining unchanged.
With the completion of the bridge and the resumption of tourism in the DPRK, in order to meet the needs of tourists, the Dandong Municipal Government and the Dandong Border Inspection Station reported to the Ministry of Public Security for approval to allow tourists to walk on the bridge into the DPRK. The Ministry of Public Security approved: allowing tourists to cross the bridge on foot, but must ensure the personal safety of tourists and the safety of the bridge. At the same time: tourists are not allowed to take pictures on the bridge, only allowed to walk side by side in line.
According to information previously disclosed by Dandong officials, the new Yalu River Bridge port commerce and logistics area of the State Gate Building and the Travel Inspection Building was topped out on August 15, 2014, and the entire port area will be fully completed on October 30, 2014 and put into use. However, the reporter of the Global Times did not see any signs of construction work by the North Korean side at the site, and even the foundation was not excavated. The opening of the bridge, which cost about 1.98 billion yuan, has been postponed indefinitely, the British newspaper The Times said.
History
In May 1909, the first bridge over the Yalu River in Dandong started construction. completed in October 1911, built by the then Japanese Korean Governor's Office Railway Bureau, began as a railroad bridge, twelve holes, 944.2 meters long, 11 meters wide, counting the fourth hole from the middle for the opening and closing of the beams, which can be rotated by 90 degrees, to facilitate navigation for the ships to and from.
April 1937, Dandong Yalu River Bridge, the second bridge was built, opened in 1943, less than 100 meters upstream from the first bridge.
In 1937, after the Japanese invasion forces invaded northeastern China, out of the need to expand the invasion and plunder resources, began to build Ji'an Yalu River national border railroad bridge.
July 31, 1939, Ji'an Yalu River Bridge was completed, opened to traffic on September 1 of that year.
On October 11, 1950, a part of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army was the first to secretly enter the DPRK from the Ji-an Yalu River State Border Railway Bridge. The First Army, Sixteenth Army and other 420,000 volunteers entered the Korean War from the Ji'an Crossing, making a significant contribution to the great victory in the fight against the U.S. and in support of the DPRK.
In 2009, the Yalu River Highway Bridge built by China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea over the Yalu River advanced smoothly in 2008, with the progress of the main appearance project reaching 66 percent.
February 2010, because the existing Dandong Yalu River Bridge built in 1937, the second bridge as the only land passage between Liaoning Province and North Pyongan Province, North Korea, can only accommodate the size of the trucks below 20 tons, and only one-way traffic. The Chinese and North Korean governments decided to build a new Yalu River Highway Bridge 10 kilometers downstream of the original bridge.
On May 15, 2010, planning and negotiations began for the new Yalu River Bridge project, which is located in the new city district of Dandong. Dandong is a new sea crossing identified by the state. Dandong is going to build three bases of logistics distribution, export processing, international trade and tourism and four platforms of international trade, science and technology, investment and tourism. Meanwhile, trade with North Korea will be further expanded. Spanning both sides of the Yalu River, the bridge is an important bridge connecting China and North Korea, a new major transportation route between Dandong and North Korea, and a major landscape point above the Yalu River in the future. The bridge adopts the form of cable-stayed, reflecting the essence of modernist design. The bridge is 3.026 kilometers long, according to the two-way four-lane standard construction, China and North Korea Yalu River Highway Bridge, a total investment of 2.22 billion yuan yuan Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences researcher Lv Chao said the two countries to build a new bridge across the river, for the two countries to close the personnel exchanges, to promote economic and trade cooperation is of great significance.
September 6, 2010, Liaoning Provincial Department of Transportation Director Zhang Tiemin said in Shenyang, will be a high standard, high quality to speed up the construction of the Yalu River Highway Bridge, to ensure the realization of the main tower topped, the main bridge merged. December 31, 2010 start construction, is expected to be completed in 2014 opened to traffic.
In March 2011, a groundbreaking ceremony for a new bridge across the Yalu River linking China and North Korea was held in Dandong, China, according to local media. Construction of the bridge is scheduled to be completed in three years and is worth 1.8 billion yuan. The Chinese side is entirely responsible for financing the construction. The existing "Sino-North Korean Friendship Bridge" is so dilapidated that it is not even worth repairing. Dandong alone accounts for 70 percent of the border trade between China and North Korea.
In February 2010, the Chinese and North Korean governments decided to build a new bridge over the Yalu River 10 kilometers downstream from the original bridge.
On December 31, 2010, the Chinese and North Korean governments therefore decided to start construction of a new Yalu River Bridge 10 kilometers downstream of the original bridge, and put it into construction according to the standard of four lanes in both directions. The Dandong government depicted the prospect of the new port on its official website, saying that the new Yalu River Bridge port area will become China's largest economic and trade port area with the DPRK after its completion, carrying 80% of the trade volume between China and the DPRK and thus easing the transportation pressure on the China-DPRK Friendship Bridge in the old city.
January 2013 The Yalu River Highway Bridge, which is being built by China and North Korea over the Yalu River, advanced smoothly in 2013, with the progress of the main exterior project reaching 66 percent.
The China-North Korea Yalu River Highway Bridge, with a total investment of 2.22 billion yuan RMB, is 3.026 kilometers long and is built according to the standard of four lanes in both directions.
August 15, 2014, the new Yalu River Bridge port commerce and logistics area of the state gate building and travel inspection building topped out, the entire port area will be fully completed on October 30 and put into use. However, all this is now unknown. The opening of the bridge, which cost about 1.98 billion yuan, has been postponed indefinitely, the British newspaper The Times said.
The new cross-border bridge connecting China and North Korea across the Yalu River was completed in late October 2014. It is not yet known when the bridge will officially open as relations between the two countries have turned cold and a road connecting the bridge has yet to be built in North Korea.
October 30, 2014, was the scheduled date for the opening of the Yalu River bridge between China and North Korea and the commissioning of the port area. However, there was no sign of the bridge being opened for use. The approach bridge on the North Korean side, which was supposed to be completed simultaneously with the main bridge built by China, was still a yellow field, and no signs of any construction work on the North Korean side could be seen at the site, and even the foundation had not been excavated.
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