The China-North Korea Friendship Bridge is located on the Yalu River between Dandong, China and Sinuiju, North Korea. The two large iron Bridges are divided into the upper bridge and the lower bridge at the upper and lower reaches of the river, which are known as the China-North Korea Friendship Bridge and the Broken Bridge.

 

 

 

The Lower bridge was the first railway bridge built over the Yalu River in May 1909 (the first year of the Seontong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty) by the Railway Bureau of the Japanese General in Korea when the temporary narrow gauge military railway of Anbong Line (Dandong to Shenyang) was converted into a permanent commercial railway. The whole project use the china-north Korea bilateral labor 510000 person-time, in October 1911 (xuantong three years) completed, bridge 941.83 meters long and 11 meters wide, 12 holes, under the piece of string type steel beam, of which 9 shelves spin beam bridge pier for axis, daily time open, for the use of large ships passing through, after the completion of the bridge, in line with the north railway line, Forming a transport line through northeast China and the Korean Peninsula. After the completion of the upper bridge in 1943, the bridge was changed into a road bridge, with a large driveway in the middle and sidewalks on both sides. On the left is the passage to North Korea, and on the right is the passage to China.

 

 

 

The Upper bridge was designed and built 100 meters upstream of the Lower bridge by Nippon Motors Corporation and Nippon Construction Corporation in accordance with the 300-year frequency when the Japanese invaders built the Anbong double track railway in April 1937 (26 years of the Republic of China). It was opened to traffic in April 1943. The bridge is 946 meters long and has 12 holes. The NORTH 6 hole is a flat string continuous bridge, the Chinese 6 hole is a hanging string continuous bridge type double track railway bridge, which can run a pair of upper and lower trains at the same time. After the bridge opened to traffic, it became the main channel for Japanese invaders to plunder Chinese resources. After the victory, the bridge was taken over by the Soviet Red Army. In June 1947, when the Soviet army withdrew from Korea, Jiangqiao was transferred to the joint administration of the two governments. In January 1951, Shangqiao tore off a section of double track railway and converted it into a road, which became a dual purpose railway and road bridge.

 

 

 

After the war began, the Yalu River Bridge and other Bridges jointly undertook the task of supplying military supplies and transporting the rear to support the front line. Most of the first volunteers went to the front from here. During the war, a large number of combat materials, weapons and equipment were also transported to the DPRK via the Yalu River bridge. In order to cut off the military and material support of the Chinese volunteers, the U.S. military mobilized most of its air power in October 1950 and began to conduct operations on the railway and road Bridges along the Yalu River, which connect China and North Korea. It vowed to "destroy with maximum force" "all international Bridges on the Korean side of the Manchurian border" and "all means of transportation, military installations, factories, cities and villages" east of the Yalu River. From November 8 to 21, the U.S. military flew more than 600 sorties of bombers to carpet-bomb all Bridges over the Yalu River, as well as villages, military facilities and major transportation routes in northern North Korea. North Korea was in ruins in an instant, and the banks of the Yalu River were ablaze. The bridge under the Yalu River was also destroyed by the blast. The eight-hole bridge on the North Korean side sank into the river, and the bridge was completely paralyzed. The rail on the north side of the bridge was blown, displacing the bridge and causing the deck to catch fire. Andong Railway Bureau organized more than 200 people to rush onto the bridge to build temporary piers with sandbags filled with gravel. Wooden pilings were built on top to support the damaged bottom beams, so that the bridge could be repaired. In the baptism of war, although it left countless bullet holes on the body, it still stands on the Yalu River, known as the "indestructible, indestructible" steel transport line, become the Chinese and Korean people - hand to fight invaders, to protect the country's victory monument and set up a rainbow of friendship between the Chinese and Korean people.

 

 

 

After the victory of anti-American aid to the DPRK, the DPRK side removed the wreckage of the 6-hole iron bridge to which the lower bridge belongs. And the Chinese part of the bridge, with bullet scars, intact. That the Chinese side of the bridge has survived so well is no accident, but has a profound historical background. During the Korean War, MacArthur, the commander in chief of the U.S. Army invading North Korea, was a famous "victorious general" in the United States. At the beginning of the war, he was blinded by a temporary victory and did not put China and Korea in the eyes. He was arrogant to push the front to the Yalu River before Thanksgiving. The U.S. government, heeding repeated protests and serious warnings from the Chinese government, feared that continued air strikes would force China into the war. Therefore, when the U.S. Air force bombed the bridge over the Yalu River, it had to strictly observe the border between China and North Korea, only bombing the North Korean side, but not the Chinese side. The existence of the "broken bridge" on the Yalu River vividly demonstrates the pivotal position of new China in the world.

 

 

 

On October 17, 1988, the People's Government of Dandong listed the Broken bridge as a city-level cultural relic protection unit; On October 25, 1990, the Chinese and DPRK governments agreed to name the bridge "China-DPRK Friendship Bridge" (the North Korean side is "DPRK-China Friendship Bridge"), in order to commemorate the combat friendship cemented by the civilian lives and blood of the two peoples. In October 2000, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Volunteers' war against the United States and aid to the DPRK, 0 members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, -Vice Chairman, -Chang, inscribed the words "Bridge of the Yalu River Broken" for Xiabao; In 2001, before the 80th anniversary of the birth of China, the Propaganda Department named the Broken bridge of the Yalu River as the "National Patriotism Education base". In June 2006, the bridge was listed as a key national cultural relic protection unit.