{"id":13687,"date":"2021-05-13T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:10:29","slug":"a-glass-bridge-collapses-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13687","title":{"rendered":"A Glass Bridge Collapses in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Chinese city of Longjing on Mount Piyan, a strong wind partially destroyed a glass bridge over which a tourist was walking, he managed to catch on to the railing and hovered at a height of one hundred meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 13, 2021 \u2013 Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is noted that the hurricane wind, reaching a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11910\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11910\">speed <\/a>of 145 km \/ h, tore off several glass panels. At this time, there was a tourist on the bridge who managed to grab the railing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man spent about half an hour over the abyss before rescuers helped him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-Glass-Bridge-Collapses-in-China2.jpg\" alt=\"A Glass Bridge Collapses in China\" class=\"wp-image-13688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-Glass-Bridge-Collapses-in-China2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-Glass-Bridge-Collapses-in-China2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption>A Glass Bridge Collapses in China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glass bridges are a popular tourist attraction in China. For example, the 526-meter long bridge across the Lianjiang River in Guangdong province, which was completed in 2020, was officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=6816\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6816\">glass <\/a>bridge in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Zhejiang University Institute of Architectural Design and Research has designed a 4.5 cm thick tempered laminated glass suspension bridge so that it is completely transparent and tourists can see the river, which is 201 meters below the structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13222\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13222\">Ukrzaliznytsia Changes the Train\u2019s Movement Because of a Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Chinese city of Longjing on Mount Piyan, a strong wind partially destroyed a glass bridge over which a tourist was walking, he managed to catch on to the railing and hovered at a height of one hundred meters. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 13, 2021 \u2013 Reports It is noted that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6384,6385,6386,6387,2399],"class_list":["post-13687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reports","tag-bridge","tag-collapse","tag-glass","tag-tourist","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13690,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions\/13690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}