The last beam of China's longest continuous swivel road bridge over a railway was successfully rotated into position in Hefei City, east China's Anhui Province, in the early hours of Saturday.
The 554-meter-long 60,000-ton bridge includes four continuous beams spanning the railroad below. Three of them had completed rotation before the end of September.
The multi-part bridge is part of a cross-provincial highway linking Chuzhou City in Anhui Province with Zhoukou City in central China's Henan Province. The successful rotation of the last bridge beam will bring the highway one step closer to being fully operational.
The highway is expected to strengthen the connectivity between Hefei and other major eastern and central cities including Nanjing, Hangzhou and Zhengzhou, which is of great significance for Hefei to accelerate its integration into the Yangtze River Delta integrated development.
China's longest continuous swivel road bridge over railway rotated in place
China is set to promote high-quality development of digital economy by making targeted efforts in key areas, said Liu Liehong, director of the National Data Administration, at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.
Liu said that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), the share of the value added of core industries in the digital economy in GDP rose from 7.8 percent in 2020 to over 10.5 percent in 2025, with an average compound annual growth rate of 12.8 percent, far exceeding the GDP growth rate over the same period.
"We will foster digital industrial clusters in a phased manner, leverage the data chain to drive deep integration of innovation chains, industrial chains, capital chains and talent chains, and advance the development of three types of digital industrial clusters -- those that drive innovation, that have become regional pillars, and that have regional characteristics. In cultivating and boosting the development of innovative enterprises in digital economy, we'll work with the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments this year to choose a batch of enterprises that have strong innovation strength and great growth potential to cultivate them as the reserve force, offering them one-stop policy support in terms of computing power, data, scenarios and funding," said Liu.
Liu said that China will also promote city-wide digital transformation, accelerate digital empowerment to improve the quality and efficiency of manufacturing industry, and quicken up the fostering of high-value application scenarios in sectors of logistics, finance, healthcare, and elderly care.
China to promote high-quality development of digital economy
