There are actually two major bridges at Tiger Leaping Gorge – one for road traffic and one for rail – completed in the past few years.

1. Expressway suspension bridge
– Part of the Shangri-La ↔ Lijiang expressway
– 1,017 m total length, single 766 m main span, single-tower steel-truss suspension design
– Deck about 250 m above the Jinsha (upper Yangtze) River
– Road deck joined January 2020, opened to traffic soon after .

2. Railway suspension bridge (Jinshajiang Hutiaoxia Railway Bridge)
– Carries the new Lijiang–Shangri-La line (Lixiang Railway)
– 660 m main span, 250 m high, truss-stiffened suspension bridge
– One tower 194 m tall, the other 155 m; main spans 132 + 660 + 132 m
– Completed 2021, now gives a ≈1 h train ride between the two tourist cities .

Both spans sit only about 1 km apart just downstream of the famous gorge viewing platform and are designed to clear a future 200 m-deep reservoir if the long-proposed Tiger Leaping Gorge dam is ever built .