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The longest bridge in the world runs for 164.8 kilometres
Most of the Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge crosses water on piers
The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge carries the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway across the Yangtze delta. It was built on tens of thousands of piers to keep the track level over soft, waterlogged ground, and took around four years to complete. Trains cross it at speeds above 300 kilometres per hour.
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