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 * 1) The name of the bridge is the Nanpu Bridge
 * 2) The construction started in 1983 and it was finished on december first 1991
 * 3) The purpose of the bridge is so that automobiles can get across the Huangpu River insted of taking the ferry across
 * 4) Why was this bridge needed?
 * 5) It is a cable type bridge
 * 6) The bridge cost $11,000,000,000 dollars to build
 * 7) Cement metal and wire were used to build the bridge
 * 8) What were some of the special challenges that the bridge engineers faced? How did they overcome these challenges?
 * 9) How long did it take to build this bridge?
 * 10) The two towers at the top of the bridge are 154 meters, the length of the bridge is 846 meters, and the width of the bridge is 31 meters
 * 11) Some fun facts were are is that there are three spiral circles that you have go threw to get up and down the bridge, it is the biggest cable made bridge in the world, and there are are two lines of small cable that suspend the bridge[[image:http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node17256/node17451/node17453/images/00019819.jpg]]media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Nanpu+Bridge,+Pudong+Xinqu,+Shanghai,+China&sll=31.205424,121.505189&sspn=0.01081,0.027874&g=Nanpu+Bridge,+Pudong+Xinqu,+Shanghai,+China&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nanpu+Bridge,+Pudong+Xinqu,+Shanghai,+China&ll=31.205424,121.505189&spn=0.005405,0.013937&z=17&output=embed" width="425" height="350"