626.01 Meters: China's Bridge Officially Certified as the World's Highest by Guinness World Records
On April 28th, after repeated measurements and verification, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the "highest bridge." At the certification ceremony, Guinness World Records official adjudicator Luo Qiong announced on-site: "The final confirmed height of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is 626.01 meters, exceeding the previous world record of 565.4 meters, challenge successful!"
This height is equivalent to stacking 209 ordinary residential floors, and is nearly twice as high as the Eiffel Tower in Paris (324 meters).
Notably, all the bridge height data for this certification was supported by Chinese surveying technology, including the domestically produced Beidou positioning equipment previously used to assist Chinese mountaineering teams in reaching the summit of Mount Everest.
The bridge is located at the intersection of Guanling County, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, and Zhenfeng County, Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and is a key control project of the Lizhi-Anlong Expressway.
As a steel truss suspension bridge, its main span reaches 1420 meters, the bridge deck is 34 meters wide, and it is designed for six lanes in both directions. It was officially completed and opened to traffic on September 28, 2025.
Previously, industry insiders have verified that the main span and height of this steel truss suspension bridge are unprecedented, and it has been hailed as "the world's number one in both horizontal and vertical directions."
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge surpassed the Beipanjiang First Bridge (formerly known as Beipanjiang Bridge), also located in Guizhou, which was certified by Guinness World Records in 2018 with a vertical distance of 565.4 meters from the bridge deck to the river surface.
Furthermore, China occupies seven of the world's ten highest bridges, all located in the southwestern mountainous areas, fully demonstrating China's infrastructure's outstanding ability to overcome complex terrains.