Video of Bridge in China Shared as New Highway to Pakistan

1. Video Of Bridge In China Shared As New Highway To Pakistan The video of the ‘double-helix’ bridge in China is viral with false claims that China has constructed a highway connecting to Pakistan. Video Of Bridge In China Shared As New Highway To Pakistan on Boom. The video of the ‘double-helix’ bridge in China is viral with false claims that China has constructed a highway connecting to Pakistan.

2. Fact Check on Viral News: A video of a bridge from China is viral on social media with a misleading claim that the road is a new highway connecting China to Pakistan. The 2.20 minute video is viral on social media with the caption, “China has now opened the 880 km highway linking their country to Pakistan, See what it looks like.” Also Read in Hindi → ववायरल खबररों ककी फफैकक्ट चचेकककग Fact Check BOOM ran a Google search for ‘New highway between China and Pakistan’ and did not find any news reports showing the road in the videos. BOOM then carried out reverse image search using a still from the video and found that the footage is from the Ganhaizi Bridge located in Ya’an City in southwest China’s Sichuan province. The bridge which has been widely covered by media outlets in China is said to be the ‘world’s longest tubular bridge’ On November 15, 2016, People’s Daily one of China’s biggest newspaper groups reported about the bridge as, “The huge ‘roller coaster’ boasts the world’s highest steel pipe concrete lattice pier, composite pier and hybrid bridge pier. It is the first bridge to use steel fiber concrete as structural material. It makes an important part of China’s first high speed ‘double helix tunnel’ through the mountainous Yaxi expressway of…continue reading