Harbin | China Eastern Railway Bridge.

| China Eastern Railway Bridge. Harbin | China Eastern Railway Bridge|||. . 📮Harbin | China Eastern Railway Bridge (China Eastern Railway Park) . 🌈Coordinates 🔰Official name: Binzhou Railway Bridge 📍East side of Stalin Park on the Songhua River in Harbin, next to China Eastern Railway Park . 🌈Specifications The bridge is 1,050 meters long and 7.2 meters wide, with 19 bridge holes. It is part of the China Eastern Railway, which connects Harbin and Manzhouli, with a total length of 2,478 kilometers. . 🌈China Eastern Railway Park Located at the starting point of the China Eastern Railway, it was completed and opened to the public in November 2016. The park has a rich urban historical and cultural connotation and is a large public welfare place with multiple functions. It is divided into two areas, north and south. The south area is themed on "railway and city," and the north area is themed on "China Eastern Railway cultural exhibition." . 🌈Construction It was built in 1900 under the supervision of engineer Alexeyev, Russian bridge expert, and chief bridge engineer of the China Eastern Railway Engineering Bureau, Lendovsky. It was the first bridge of the China Eastern Railway and the first cross-river bridge on the Songhua River. . 🌈History In the early 20th century, from 1896 to 1903, Tsarist Russia, in order to plunder China's resources and further control the Far East, forced Chinese laborers to build a "T"-shaped railway on Chinese land without the consent of the Chinese side. After the completion of the China Eastern Railway, a large amount of capital was injected, and trade developed rapidly. Harbin, located at the intersection of the main and branch lines of the China Eastern Railway, developed (Harbin, born because of the railway, is known as the Moscow of the East). The bridge still retains the bridge bunkers built during the Japanese invasion of the three northeastern provinces. . 🌈Current status It was decommissioned in April 2014. After the completion and opening of the Harbin-Jiamusi Passenger Dedicated Line cross-river bridge next to it, this bridge, which guarded the throat fortress of the Binzhou Railway and witnessed the century-old history of Harbin, officially completed its mission.