Huajiang Canyon Bridge is now the world’s highest deck
For nearly a decade the Duge Bridge (Beipanjiang) in Guizhou, China held the record for the highest bridge deck — about 565 m (1,854 ft) above the Beipan River, opened in 2016.
On 28 September 2025 the Huajiang Canyon Bridge (also called Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge) opened on the S57 Liuzhi–Anlong Expressway, also in Guizhou. Its roadway sits about 625 m (2,050 ft) above the Beipan River — roughly 60 m higher than Duge, a short distance upstream on the same river system.
- Type: suspension bridge
- Total length: about 2,890 m (9,480 ft)
- Main span: about 1,420 m (4,660 ft)
- Role: cuts a winding mountain crossing that once took hours down to a few minutes
Highest means deck height above the valley or water, not the height of the towers. Tower height is listed separately on our tallest bridges page (Millau Viaduct still leads that measure).
Our highest-bridges gallery still leads with Duge because we do not yet have a Huajiang photo in the archive. The listing note and this page exist so the record is stated correctly.