Scott No: 3135-36
Serial number:2001-19
Values in set: 2
Denomination: 360 fen
Date of issue: 20th September 2001
Designer: Hao Ou
Size of stamps: 50*30 mm
Perforation:12
Sheet composition: 16
Printing process: gravure-engraving
Printer: Beijing Postage Stamp Printing House

The Wuhu Bridge over the Yangtze River, a stayed-cable bridge for both highway and railway, is the first and largest of its kind designed independently by Chinese engineers. The Bridge, a key State-level project in the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, was constructed with joint investment by the Ministry of Railway and the Provincial Government of Anhui, and was put into operation in September 2000, after three-and-half years of construction. The bridge has a 10.624 km-long railway part and a 6.078 km-long highway part, with a main span of 312 meters. With a lot of advanced technologies adopted in the design work, this original bridge is a symbolic project of China's dual-purpose bridge construction in the 20th Century. Completing the railway and highway networks of eastern China, it bore great importance to the expansion of cargo and passenger transportations across the Yangtze River as well as to the economic development of the entire eastern China, especially Anhui Province.