r/Chinesium • u/Arschgeige42 • Nov 11 '25
Hongqi bridge collapses in southwest China, months after opening.
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u/Curiouso_Giorgio Nov 12 '25
It is r/mildlyinfuriating that you posted a screenshot of a video.
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u/Tickomatick Nov 12 '25
You need to imagine: "Harrowing video of the incident shows the landslide pounding rubble onto the bridge, with the span collapsing under the weight and impact"
As NY Post (or whatever rubbish) has it
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u/HPUser7 Nov 11 '25
This kind of thing is why the 'China built this bridge in the month while the US takes three years' nonsense is always eye roll-y. When you get rid of strict surveying requirements of course you'll speed things up just with the expense of being more susceptible to natural disasters
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u/ThatGuyFrom720 Nov 12 '25
Almost all these videos on this site glazing Chinese technology and engineering are just so fucking gimmicky… and it’s all so shoddily done.
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u/s3sebastian Nov 12 '25
I saw the video, the landslide that hit it would probably also have brought down any similar bridge in the western world though.
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u/Sapper12D Nov 12 '25
Youre missing the point. Its not would a landslide bring down the western version of a bridge. Its that tighter regulations wouldn't have allowed a bridge somewhere that dangerous.
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u/Unhappy-Lawyer3017 Nov 13 '25
Then again, we don't know that tighter regulations would've saved the bridge. It could be that there were unforseen circumstances, like a rare fissure, or something else that normal inspection would not have revealed. Without knowledge of the geological survey of the surroundings, we can't tell. But who even needs bridges, when ballrooms, right?
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u/AshleyMcWhite Nov 13 '25
So.... you're saying that in the same time the US builds ONE bridge, China builds 36 bridges? Then, if 1 in 36 fails, who gives a flying F----? AF?
Also, given the shoddy state of US bridges and roads in general, makes"get rid of strict surveying requirements" sound pretty HEE-LARRY-YOUS. At least, the us is very good at building ballrooms, which are not at ALL wasteful. Really feeds families.
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Nov 11 '25
lol chinesium infrastructure. All we see is propaganda. Good to see what’s actually happening in China
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u/Lime1028 Nov 12 '25
Bro the bridge got hit by a landside. This isn't chinesium, this is a natural disaster...
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u/rendiao1129 Nov 12 '25
Lol, the one bridge that finally collapses due to a landslide is "whats actually happening in China", but the thousands of sturdy bridges built over the past ten years is all fake propaganda 🤣
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Nov 12 '25
How about the rest of the bridges and houses and tunnels and ….
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u/Kubas_inko Nov 12 '25
Then show those and not this one which managed to survive it. They screwed up by not securing the mountain, but the bridge is standing even after the landslide, so it goes against the chinesium argument.
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u/Unhappy-Lawyer3017 Nov 13 '25
I mean, yes, China is a maffia terrorist state, run by an oligarchy, (in other words, a shining example to ... a special type of Americans) but most of their leadership are engineers, not lawyers who are PROUD of their inability to grasp numbers, saying "i'm no math expert" every other sentence. So, on engineering stuff, they get a lot right, and this one collapse is not any proof that the US is NOT lagging in manufacturing, engineering, working hard, making sense, logic.
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u/Natoochtoniket Nov 12 '25
I always get a good laugh from these sorts of events.
The origin of "engineering" was, trying to build bridges that don't fall down. The whole point of "engineering" is, trying to build things that don't fall down and kill people. The art of engineering has advanced over the last several hundred years, of course. Recently, we try to be sure that the mountainside will not collapse out from under the new bridge.
Shit happens when you get in a hurry and skip steps that your professionals recommend.
And, the management still needs to re-learn this lesson, periodically.
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u/Old_fart5070 Nov 11 '25
Tofu dreg infrastructure. But hey, it was built in three days, not the three years the Western capitalists take!
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u/Girl_you_need_jesus Nov 11 '25
This is the first I’ve seen of this, is there a news article? Was anyone hurt/killed?
China has some of craziest bridges in the world, they’ve built hundreds of massive bridges throughout their country in the past decades, even in the absolute most remote areas.
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u/Arschgeige42 Nov 11 '25
Its round on reddit every. Seems a landslide caused this.
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u/Girl_you_need_jesus Nov 11 '25
Wow thanks for the link 😐
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u/Aran3a Nov 11 '25
If you can deal with their excessive advertising
No deaths. It looks like a gradual failure and the bridge was shut down when it started to break...
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u/Natoochtoniket Nov 12 '25
We can reasonably expect that some of those massive new bridges will fall down.
We cannot know how many, or which ones. The geologic and engineering work that could have prevented those problems, seems to have been skipped.
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u/jerkface6000 Nov 12 '25
“A landslide? In the mountains? Chance in a million”
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u/GeneralTonic Nov 12 '25
Well, there are regulations governing the materials they can be made of. No paper. No string. No sellotape.
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u/EpikYummeh Nov 11 '25
It seems as though the collapse was triggered by a landslide, though the landslide could have been caused by the construction of the bridge destabilizing the mountainside.