The last piece of a T-beam was installed successfully on the Dushi Super Large Bridge on Dec 6, marking that the Yunfu-Maoming Expressway has been joined up in two directions and laying a solid foundation for the expressway to open to traffic in the first half of next year.

Dushi Super Large Bridge. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

The Dushi Super Large Bridge is located in Dingbao town of Xinyi, a county-level city in Maoming. It spans 2,566.5 meters in length and is the longest bridge along the expressway.

The Yunfu-Maoming Expressway starts at Weidi town in Yunfu and ends at Hehua town in Maoming. It totals a length of 129.7 kilometers and adopts the standard of a four-lane expressway, with a designed speed of 100 km per hour.

To the east, the expressway can connect the cities in the Pearl River Delta region through the expressway network in Guangdong, and to the west, it can reach the Beibu Gulf city cluster through the road network in Guangxi.

After completion, it is expected to greatly reduce the travel time between the mountainous areas in western Guangdong and the Beibu Gulf city cluster.