April 21, 1959 (March 14), Jihai, Zhengzhou Yellow River New Bridge. In In 1959 April 21 morning, thousands of bridge construction workers and Henan Province, Zhengzhou City, representatives from all sectors, bringing together in the bridge, held a grand opening ceremony.


Zhengzhou Yellow River Bridge is our bridge team under the leadership of the party, following the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. Maximum a permanent double track railway bridge built on the Yellow River. The bridge is nearly three miles long, all designed and built by our own. Bridge under construction in May 1958, builders give full play to the style of bold vision and courage, successful application and development of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge column based construction methods, and through technological innovation and the technological revolution, created in the Yellow River sinking giant column in a bridge construction advanced experience. Thus ensuring that the national plan six months in advance to build the bridge. Further training in the bridge-building process, expanding the construction of a bridge technical team, especially in the Yellow River this particular geological, hydrological conditions, access to the actual experience of the construction of a bridge in the construction of a new bridge on the Yellow River in the future and lay a favorable foundation. after
The bridge was opened to traffic, not only can greatly improve the transport capacity of the Beijing-Guangzhou railway, and also plays a significant role, to improve the transport capacity of the Longhai trunk. Past, although one of the Yellow River Old Bridge, but because it is a single-line bridge, through capacity far unable to meet the needs of the development of national economy, high-speed today. Train loaded with steel, coal, machinery and other materials used, crowded to allow the car to wait in the bridge on both sides. With the commissioning of the bridge, it will quickly change this situation.