East China's Jiangsu Province will construct 10 bridges and two tunnels to span the lower Yangtze River, the country's longest.

Sources from Jiangsu provincial departments for planning and construction of communications said these would include a bullet train bridge and a light-train bridge.

Three of the bridges are now under construction.

The 400-km lower Yangtze starts from Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, one of the country's most economically developed regions, and ends at the estuary.

There are now only three bridges on the lower Yangtze, and the most famous is the highway-railway bridge in Nanjing, which has been included by the World Guinness Book of Records for being the longest such bridge in the world.

Construction of the Nanjing Yangtze River bridge started in January in 1960 and was completed in 1968.

Xiang Haifan, a bridge expert and also a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, claims that the Yangtze is the most concentrated area for construction of bridges in the world.

He said, Nanjing, the provincial capital on the southern bank of the Yangtze, is connected to the northern bank by two bridges. When all the planned bridges and tunnels are finished, the city will have 11 thoroughfares linking to the northern bank of the river.

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