Expats experience China's modern development on Yangtze River bridges

The Yangtze River, the world's third-longest, is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization. It has fed the people along its banks for thousands of years. And today, the mega engineering projects of its bridges have connected cities and paved the way for modern development.

A group of 10 expats from nine countries, including Russia, South Africa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, took part in the latest Go Jiangsu trip to step onto four of the Yangtze River bridges in East China's Jiangsu province on Sept 22 and 23.

At the Sutong Yangtze River Bridge Exhibition Hall in Changshu, the expats heard the challenges and hardships of the bridge constructors and learned that the bridge connecting Suzhou and Nantong in Jiangsu had a far-reaching economic impact on the affluent region.