Jianying Memorial Bridge

Jianying Memorial Bridge is a bridge over the Meijiang River in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.
The bridge's namesake is Ye Jianying. Using money from Overseas Chinese and the government, the bridge was constructed as a tribute to Ye's centennial birthday. It took 10 months for the Meizhou Municipal Construction Group Company to build the bridge, which began operating in September 1997. Construction of the bridge was entirely completed on 1 October 1998. Baihuazhou was largely farmland that had sparse housing in the 1990s. According to the Nanfang Daily, there has been a significant growth in pedestrian and vehicle traffic as well as the construction of tower blocks on former fields driven by the completion of the Jianying Memorial Bridge, the Delong Bridge, and the Nanmen Commercial Plaza.
The bridge has a length of and a width of. A road from Jiangbei leads to the bridgehead. Each side of the bridge features gardens and plazas. Under the bridge, Chinese chess players routinely meet for matches. The bridgehead features a park where residents dance and sing. A vintage-style archway sits atop the bridge, which has stone-carved railings. Stone lions occupy both sides of the archway, meant to protect people who are travelling to and from their home. Despite looking like an arch bridge, it is a beam bridge.