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China’s impossible engineering feat

Digital cutdown from ep6 of Tales from Modern China exploring the world's highest bridge

Suspended 565m above China’s remote south-west mountains, the Beipanjiang Bridge took decades to construct and has revolutionised bridge-building around the world.

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