Chinese workers are building a massive bridge with its main tower taller than The Shard.
The Pingtang Bridge, which will cost 1.5 billion yuan (£168.7 million) to complete, is 2,135 metres (1.3 miles) long and connects two rural towns in the largely agricultural Guizhou Province.
The cable-stayed bridge has three towers. Its main tower, standing a whopping 332 metres (1,089 feet), is 26 metres (85 feet) taller than The Shard in London and 32 metres (105 feet) taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The Pingtang Bridge has three towers and the main tower is taller than The Shard with an impressive height of 1,089 feet
Chinese workers are working hundreds of feet above the ground on a platform of the bridge, which is set to complete in 2019
The traffic link, which will cost 1.5 billion yuan (£168.7 million) to complete, connects two rural towns in Guizhou Province
Spanning over the Caoduhe River Valley, the structure will have eight traffic lanes with a speed limit of 49 miles per hour
However, the impressive Pingtang tower is 11 metres (36 feet) shorter than that of the Millau Viaduct in France which is the tallest bridge in the world in terms of its structural height.
Spanning over the Caoduhe River Valley in southern Guizhou, the eight-lane bridge will enable traffic to travel directly between the towns of Yazhou and Tongzhou in Pingtang County.
Workers are expected to finish building the new local landmark by the end of this year after a 3.5-year-long construction period.
The topping out of the three bridge towers was achieved last November.
The impressive Pingtang Bridge is 36 feet shorter than the Millau Viaduct in France, which is the world's tallest bridge
The Millau Viaduct (pictured) is the tallest bridge in the world in terms of structural height. Its main tower is 1,125 feet tall
Workers are expected to finish building the Pingtang Bridge by the end of this year after a 3.5-year-long construction period
The topping out of all three towers of the Pingtang Bridge was achieved last November, with the tallest one at 1,089 feet
China is also building the world's longest double-deck suspension bridge, the Yangsigang Bridge, across the Yangtze River in the central city of Wuhan.
The Yangsigang Bridge boasts a single span of 1,700 metres (5,577 feet) over the Yangtze River and will cost a whopping eight billion yuan (£900 million) to construct. It is expected to complete in October.
The bridge's span is 221 metres (725 feet) shorter than that of Japan's Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world. But the Japanese bridge, which crosses the busy Akashi Strait, only has one level.
A 1,000-tonne steel beam is lifted to be installed last November at the
