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Have traditional stone arch bridges been completely eliminated in the modern world?

Wanzhou Yangtze River Bridge formerly known as Wanxian Yangtze River Bridge, highway bridge. Wanzhou Yangtze River Highway Bridge was built in the current Wanzhou District, Chongqing City, Huangniu Kongzi River river surface, is connected to the 318 national highway line of a large highway supporting bridge, is the first single-hole cross-river highway bridge on the Yangtze River, but also at the time the world's largest arch bridge of the same type of span. The bridge is 814 meters long, 23 meters wide, the bridge arch net span of 420 meters, the bridge is 140 meters high from the river. The construction of the main bridge started in May 1994, and in May 1997, the bridge was completed and opened to traffic. Bridge in the China Civil Engineering Society in 2004, the 16th annual meeting was selected as the first "National Top Ten Bridges", ranked first in the arch bridge. Although it is called "Chaotianmen Bridge", the actual location of the bridge is 1.7 kilometers away from the Chaotianmen, in the green lawn of Irrigation Lanxi. The Chaotianmen Bridge was designed from the outset to be the gateway to the river in Chongqing. "The program finally selected a simple and atmospheric steel truss arch bridge form," said the project department

Responsible person, the bridge has only two main piers, the main span reaches 552 meters, longer than the world-famous arch bridge --- the main span of the Sydney Bridge in Australia. The main span of the bridge is also long, becoming the "world's first arch bridge".