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China is getting a pretty massive Christmas present this year with the opening of the second-highest suspension bridge in the world. e Daily Mail reported that engineers in China are currently wrapping up work on the sky high 1,332-foot-tall Qingshui River Bridge that's set to open Dec. 25. e bridge is just over 3,700 feet long. However, it's looking up at the bridge that's really impressive, as it stands more than 500 feet taller than America's most famous suspension bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Not only is the bridge impressive in its size, it's also going to make travel quite a bit easier in the region. e bridge cuts the commute between Guiyang and Weng'an from 100 miles to just 23 miles. Granted, since terrain was the primary reason the commute was diffi cult before, the construction wasn't exactly easy. " e biggest challenges mainly lie in the location of the bridge in mountainous areas, where we are unable to use large machinery to transport the holistic girders in place. erefore, we cut the girders into small sections and assembled them a er they were transported to the construction site," chief engineer Shang Mingshan said. e Qingshui River Bridge is only shorter than the 1,627-foot Sidu River Bridge, which is also in China. ● www.equipmentworld.com,12/14/15 DON'T LOOK DOWN: 22 Chinese engineers fi nish work on world's 2nd-tallest suspension bridge