New appearance: Xiaoqing River extra large bridge.
Workers were working on the expansion joint on the extra large bridge over Xiaoqing River on November 14th when the bitumen has been paved on the left side of it, providing the acceptation standards in December. The extra large bridge, the key node of Jinan-Qingdao Highway expansion project crosses Xiaoqing River and the main channel of south-to-north water diversion project from east to west. The bridge which is designed 90 meters long has been expanded into 1032 meters, the extra large bridge and transformed into the three-span pre-stressed concrete continuous box girder with variable sections in cooperation with the navigation engineering on Xiaoqing River.
At present the expansion joints and sound barriers are under busy construction and opens to traffic with Xiaoxujia hub, west section (Ji’nan to Qingdao).