The New China-DPRK Yalu River Bridge opened to cargo traffic on Thursday, adding a four-lane crossing to expand freight capacity and support trade between the two countries.
China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a joint ceremony to mark the opening. Flower-decorated trucks were among the first vehicles to cross the bridge, which links Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning Province with Sinuiju in the DPRK.
The 28.5-meter-wide road bridge has four lanes for two-way traffic. Construction began in December 2010 and was completed in October 2014.
The new crossing will operate alongside the China-DPRK Friendship Bridge, a combined road-and-rail bridge that allows road traffic in only one direction at a time and can accommodate trucks weighing less than 20 metric tons.
Dandong is home to China's largest border trade port with the DPRK. Bilateral trade reached 2.735 billion U.S. dollars in 2025, according to Chinese official data. China's Foreign Ministry said the new bridge will further improve connectivity and facilitate trade and people-to-people exchanges.
New China-DPRK bridge opens to cargo traffic across Yalu River
Yemen's Houthi group said that it had carried out multiple attacks on Saudi and Saudi-led coalition targets, while the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a Houthi missile, and Yemeni government forces reported operations against the group on several fronts.
In a statement released early Thursday, the Houthis said they used a surface-to-air missile to hit a Saudi Typhoon fighter jet. The aircraft, they said, had taken off from Saudi Arabia's Taif Air Base and was hit over Yemen's Sa'adah Province. Saudi Arabia has not yet responded to the claim.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Houthis said they launched a large-scale attack using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones against oil facilities of energy giant Saudi Aramco in Dhahran in eastern Saudi Arabia, as well as King Khalid International Airport and a Saudi Aramco refinery in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
The Houthis said in a separate statement released Wednesday evening that the group had fired one more ballistic missile at King Khalid International Airport and launched three ballistic missiles at Saudi-led coalition targets in southern Yemen.
Turki al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, said on Wednesday that they had intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile fired toward Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's General Directorate of Civil Defense said in a statement on Wednesday that fragments from the intercepted missile fell in Riyadh, injuring one person.
Meanwhile, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported that late on Wednesday the Saudi-led coalition carried out an airstrike on a residential building in the Al Maravi'ah area of Hodeidah province, which is under Houthi control. Early on Thursday, al-Masirah also reported that Yemen's capital, Sanaa, had come under Saudi attack.
According to a Houthi statement issued on Wednesday evening, the Saudi-led coalition launched 42 airstrikes and missile attacks on Houthi-controlled areas in the previous 24 hours. The Houthis said that Saudi attacks on islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait directly threatened the safety of maritime shipping routes.
Separately, Yemeni government forces said on Wednesday that they continued to strike Houthi targets and personnel on the eastern and southern fronts.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since late 2014, when the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene in 2015 in support of the Yemeni government.
Houthis, Saudi-led coalition report fresh military actions against each other
