Bai Chunli, left, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and Li Shushen, center, president of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, post for a group photo with graduates of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on July 2, 2018. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]
Graduates pose for group photos at the commencement ceremony of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on July 2, 2018. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/China Daily]
The last section is put into the position to finish the main span of the Daxiaojing Bridge in Guizhou province, June 30, 2018. [Photo by Liu Yilin/chinadaily.com.cn]
Workers have successfully completed the closure of the top-bear concrete-filled steel tube arch bridge with the world's longest span of its kind in Southwest China's Guizhou province when they installed the last steel tube on Saturday.
The bridge is 1.5 kilometers long, with its main span 450 meters, over the Dajing River in Luodian county. It is the core project of the highway from Yuqing to Anlong in Guizhou.