Monday, June 12, 2023

Cable-Stayed Swing Bridge over Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Huai'an, China

(Satellite)

This part of China does not have Google Street Views. I also tried Bing Maps to no avail.

Economic Daily, China posted
In early summer, cargo ships shuttle through the Jiangsu Huaian section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, presenting a busy scene.
Tom Brassington: Awesome swing bridge.
Norbert Karikkassery: Photo shop. Recently there have been a lot of hotos of such technologically advanced structures supposidly existing in China. They are all propaganda photos meant to convince the world that China possess the best construction technology with fantastic aesthetics. You will notice in this photo that the road is blue in color. This is done to enhance the effect. There are no blue surface roads anywhere in the world.
Ivan Hriljac: Norbert Karikkassery Absolutely correct. FB is flooded with China communist propaganda. Some of their photo shop fraudsters are colourblind or don't know what they are doing.
Sure sign that China is desperately worried over something. Hmmmm. I think they see a competitor on the horizon coming very quickly towards them.

Dennis DeBruler commented on the Norbert's comment
I doubt that Google Maps was photoshopped.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.567968,119.0267553,408m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

The Grand Canal is heavily used in Huai'an. This would be a fleeting area.
Satellite

To find this bridge, I searched the canal north from Gaoyou Lake, so I found other signs of canal usage.

At an aqueduct:
Satellite
Pan upwards and you will see some more long tows and another aqueduct.

I've noticed that their tows are long and narrow. It appears that they are actually towed rather than pushed as they are on the American waterways. I've seen these long, narrow tows referred to as mule trains, and they were sometimes used in American when the river was covered with ice.

On a side canal:
Satellite

It took me a while to realize that this was an intersection of the Grand Canal with the side canal. Note the channel on the east side that allows traffic between the southeast Grand Canal and the northeast side canal to avoid going up and down the locks. The Grand Canal must have a lot of traffic because it has three locks, and they are all being used.
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