Published 27th August 2014

China are the lords of bridge construction, the 2,050ft-long Oakland bridge that spans San Francisco’s bay in fact started its life in China. It was moved over in massive chunks all the way from Shanghai. China are also winning a significant number of big infrastructure contracts as African nations begin working on developing their bridges, roads and railways. Ex-soviet countries like Serbia and Bulgaria have also been employing Chinese companies to sort their stuff out.

According to Engineering News Record, five of the world’s top ten contractors, in terms of revenue, are now Chinese. Good on them, they’re taking over. Perhaps they will eventually begin a new wave of colonial invasions. Now that really would be interesting. Give us Europeans a taste of our own medicine perhaps! They would leave us with some wonderful bridges though.

The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge is the world's longest bridge.It is a 164.8-kilometre (102.4 mi) long viaduct on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. 

The bridge is located on the rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing in East China’s Jiangsu province. It is in the Yangtze River Delta where the geography is characterized by lowland rice paddies, canals, rivers and lakes. The bridge runs roughly parallel to the Yangtze River, about 5 to 50 miles south of the river. It passes through the northern edges of population centers (from west to east) beginning in Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou and ending in Kunshan. There is a 9-kilometre long (5.6 mi) section over open water across Yangcheng Lakein Suzhou. It was completed in 2010 and opened in 2011. Employing 10,000 people, construction took four years and cost about $8.5 billion.[1]Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge in the world in any category as of June 2011.