{"id":74643,"date":"2025-10-08T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge-guizhou-china-worlds-highest-bridge-how-it-feels-crossing"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:43:53","slug":"i-can-touch-the-clouds-how-it-feels-to-cross-the-worlds-highest-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74643","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can touch the clouds\u2019: how it feels to cross the world\u2019s highest bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opened last month in China, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge sits 625 metres above the valley below<\/p>\n<p>As a safety worker for bungee jumps and rope swings, Mr Fu has spent a lot of time standing on bridges. But his new job, working at the new Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Southern China, takes the cake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe view from the bridge is fantastic,\u201d he tells the Guardian. \u201cBeneath the bridge flows the Beipan River, with Huajiang Village nearby and a waterfall as well. It is very exciting \u2013 the bridge is very high, and many visitors come. Standing on it yourself feels thrilling as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/08\/huajiang-grand-canyon-bridge-guizhou-china-worlds-highest-bridge-how-it-feels-crossing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opened last month in China, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge sits 625 metres above the valley belowAs a safety worker for bungee jumps and rope swings, Mr Fu has spent a lot of time standing on bridges. But his new job, working at the new Huajiang Gran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74643\/revisions\/74644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}