Recently, the Puli River Grand Bridge, the longest bridge on the entire Wankai Expressway (Wanzhou-Kaizhou-Dazhou Expressway), has entered the full-scale construction phase and is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.

At the construction site of the Puli River Grand Bridge on the Wankai Expressway, the reporter observed more than 30 workers divided into two teams carrying out construction, with large rotary drilling rigs and excavators busy excavating the bridge pile foundations. Through the efforts of the builders, 58 of the 173 planned pile foundations for the bridge have already been successfully completed. According to the introduction, the right line of the Puli River Grand Bridge is 1,148 meters long and the left line is 1,262 meters long; it is not only a controlling project of the Wankai Expressway but also the longest bridge on the entire route.

The Wankai Expressway is a section of the national expressway network G5012 and also the 30th connecting line in the main skeleton expressway network of our city, which consists of "four ring roads, twenty-two radial routes, and sixty connecting lines." The project has a total investment of 11.26 billion yuan, a route length of 50.8 kilometers, a design speed of 100 kilometers per hour, and four lanes in both directions; it will be completed and opened to traffic in 2027.