Yangmingtan Bridge
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| carries = 8 lanes of Harbin 3rd Ring Road
| crosses = Songhua River
| locale = Harbin
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| design = Suspension bridge
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| mainspan = {{convert|250|m}}
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| begin = December 25, 2009
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| cost = 1.882 Billion Yuan
| open = November 6, 2011
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The Yangmingtan Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning {{convert|250|m}} over the Songhua River in Harbin, China.
Collapse
A part of the newly inaugurated {{convert|15|km|mi|adj=mid|-long}} bridge spanning the Songhua River collapsed on August 24, 2012, at 5 am, killing 3 people and injuring 2 others.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19365154 "Three dead in newly-built Chinese bridge collapse"]. Problems seem to have occurred due to the weight of trucks using the bridge. The bridge was designed to handle 55 tons, but the combined weight of heavy trucks, amounting to at least 500 tons, caused the bridge to collapse. The collapse was blamed mostly on the construction design and on the project's having been finished too quickly and on traffic controllers having allowed, onto the bridge, vehicles of excessive weight.[https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1022757/3-die-collapse-yangmingtan-bridge-harbin 3 die in collapse at Yangmingtan Bridge, Harbin]