The Dongjin Bridg - China's Wood Boats Bridge

The Dongjin Bridge (simplified Chinese: 东津桥;traditional Chinese: 東津橋; pinyin: Dōngjīn Qiáo) orJianchunmen Pontoon Bridge (建春门浮桥) in Ganzhou,Jiangxi province, China is a pontoon bridge constructed over the Gong River in the Chinese Song Dynasty (960-1279).

 Situated outside the Jianchunmen gate of theGanzhou city wall, it is the survivor of several pontoon bridges found in China. Its length is a total of roughly 400 metres long, made up of wooden planks placed on around 100 wooden boats linked together with iron chains. Source: Wikipedia

Dongjin Bridge in 2014

Dongjin Bridge in the 1940s

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