Work to connect the main part of a bridge, nearly 570 meters above a valley, was wrapped up on Sep. 10, 2016 in Southwest China's Guizhou province.

With a height equivalent to a 200-storey building, the Beipanjiang bridge is the highest in the world by the vertical distance from the bridge deck down to the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span, said Wu, an official with Guizhou's transport department, citing public data on high bridges that have been completed across the globe.

The construction of the 1,341-meter-long cable-stayed suspension bridge started in 2013, costing about 1 billion yuan (about $150 million dollars).