The 35th International Bridge Conference (IBC) was held in Washington, USA. The Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge, which is famous for its height and length in the world and its technological innovation, won the Arthur Haydn Award from this conference. This is a bridge engineering project in Hunan that has won a high international award. Zhangjiajie has won the highest honors in the world in the tourism landscape project.
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge is located in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Scenic Spot in Hunan Province. It is culturally designed and positioned with the philosophical and aesthetic ideas of "The Great Sound and the Sound of Lao Tzu, and the elephant is invisible". Fully affirmed and praised by the engineering community, CNN listed it as one of the 11 most spectacular bridges in the world.
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge is a multi-functional landscape pedestrian bridge. In addition to the pedestrian function, it also has multi-purpose functions such as bungee jumping, swings, ziplines, T platforms, and tightrope walking. The bridge is 430 meters long, 6 to 15 meters wide, and is nearly 300 meters above the ground. It is a multi-functional special-shaped suspension glass bridge. After its completion in 2016, it became the world's longest, the world's tallest, and the world's first glass as the main force-bearing structure. Ten items of "the world's longest", such as large bridges. In 2017, the bridge won a high award for domestic engineering projects - "2016-2017 National Quality Engineering Award", and Chen Zhidong won the "2016-2017 National Quality Engineering Award Outstanding Contributor" and Zhangjiajie High-quality scientific and technological workers.
Since its trial operation in 2017, the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge has become the pillar of Zhangjiajie's tourism industry, a new landmark of Zhangjiajie tourism, and has driven the upsurge of domestic tourism glass projects. Industry insiders said that the birth of the glass bridge has changed the habit of copying the planning and construction of scenic spots, and has well integrated Chinese history and high-quality culture into tourism products. The Grand Canyon Glass Bridge perfectly combines tourism and technology, bringing significant social and economic benefits. According to incomplete statistics, since the glass bridge was put into the market, it has received 6.2 million tourists and paid 220 million yuan in taxes. At the same time, Chen Zhidong was also evaluated High-quality individuals for poverty alleviation through tourism.
In June 2017, when the famous economist Li Yining inspected the glass bridge, he said: The Grand Canyon Glass Bridge project is a new idea and a good product of the tourism supply-side reform launched by Zhangjiajie in the new era. Chen Xianchun, director of the Hunan Provincial Tourism Development Commission, said that in recent years, the growth of tourists from the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge has surpassed that of the core scenic spots Wulingyuan and Tianmen Mountain, which is equivalent to rebuilding Wulingyuan and Tianmen Mountain.
The award of the World Bridge Congress is known as the "Nobel Prize" of the bridge industry. The award was established in 1988 and is held once a year. The conference has five awards: the John Lublin Gold Award, the Arthur Haydn Award, the George Richardson, the Gustav Linden Major and the Eugene Figo Award. Design, practicability, concept, environmental resources and other aspects will give awards and commendations to high-quality bridge projects.
At this conference, a total of 4 bridges in China won awards, namely, Anhui Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge won the George Richardson Award, Guizhou Beipanjiang Bridge 1 and Guizhou Yachi River Bridge both won the Staffs Lindens Award, Zhangjiajie The Grand Canyon Glass Bridge won the Arthur Haydn Award, of which Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge is an award-winning bridge project built by a private enterprise as an investor, which fully demonstrates the power of Chinese manufacturing.
-转自中国玻璃网
