In Yunnan, there is a river called Nujiang, and everyone knows it, especially Yunnan. When crossing a mountain area in Yunnan, crossing the river means hanging your body on an iron rope and going to school every day. Perhaps for children everywhere, the first thing they learn in school is not Chinese Pinyin, but the ability to cross the iron rope. But now there is a bridge on the Nujiang River, which is a good thing, but now only people are allowed to take pictures. Why?

Nujiang Bridge is a miracle among many bridges in China and the only bridge in China where tourists are not allowed to take photos.

The bridge is 678m long and15.8m wide. It is the only traffic lifeline connecting the east and west banks in Liuku City, Yunnan Province. It has important strategic significance. Once destroyed, the east and west sides will lose contact, so there are armed police guards here 24 hours a day.

The bridge was first built in 1953. It was built by all officers and men of Southwest Military Region 18 troops with their hands and lives, and was rebuilt in 1988.

In the process of repairing the bridge that year, many touching stories happened, such as "mysterious stone pier": a soldier accidentally fell in while checking the pouring situation of the pier, and his body solidified with the pier. Later, when the bridge was rebuilt, all the other piers were demolished, leaving only this one.

The most dangerous thing to build this bridge is to put explosives on the cliff and open the mountain wall. At that time, the 54th Division of 18 Army/4th Company and 1st Platoon of 2nd Battalion of KLOC-0/62 Regiment accepted this dangerous task. Eight months later, the mountain wall was cut open, but there was only one platoon leader left in this row of more than 30 people. After the task was completed, the platoon leader did not want to live alone and jumped into the rolling Nujiang River without hesitation.

At present, Nujiang Bridge is guarded by Changdu Detachment of Tibet Armed Police 18 Squadron, guarding the bridge that our ancestors exchanged their lives for 24 hours.

It is also the only bridge in China where tourists are not allowed to take photos.

Behind the scenes story:

When 18 troops were building the Nujiang Bridge, a soldier who was only 2 1 year old accidentally fell into the concrete being poured and died on the spot. On the advice of his relatives, he has been put to sleep on this dock, so now the soldier's body has been kept on this dock. This old pier was later specially preserved to commemorate the soldier who built roads on the Sichuan-Tibet line, and also to remember all the predecessors who died on the road of 3 18.

18 troops simply sacrificed an average of 1 2 people per kilometer. With earth-shattering indomitable will, they shouted the heroic slogan "Let the mountain bow and let the river make way" and split the Hengduan Mountain with their hands.