Prime Minister Hasina of Bangladesh Cut the Ribbon for the Padma Bridge

On June 25, the dream project for the people of Bangladesh, the Padma Bridge, has officially come into service. As an essential railway connecting China and Southeast Asia, the 6150-meter Padma Bridge is built under the most special geological features and the most difficult foundation construction conditions in the world.

This is a bridge of innovation, science and technology, and a bridge of friendship between China and Bangladesh.

The largest and most challenging infrastructure project in Bangladesh's history completely ends the centuries old history of Bangladeshi people crossing the river by ferry.

In the 8-year effort, over 100 XCMG machines including cranes, rollers, crawler cranes, concrete equipment, etc. have contributed to the construction and witnessed the largest scale and the most challenging infrastructure project in the history of Bangladesh. XCMG cooperated with China Railway Bridge Bureau Group, the contractor of the project, and was highly praised. It is estimated that the bridge will promote the GDP growth of Bangladesh by about 1.5% and benefit more than half of the population of Bangladesh.

The riverbed at the bridge site is extremely soft with silt and silty sand. Once it rains, it becomes a "mud pond", causing great difficulties to the construction. Several XCMG 55t truck cranes, XGC150 crawler cranes and XGC180 crawler cranes are firmly ‘rooted’ in the rough and muddy water surface. They are like ‘special forces’ with vigorous and resolute actions.

On the construction site, there were 12 concrete mineral storage tanks, each of which was more than 20 meters in height and 10 tons in weight. XCMG's service engineers fastened tens of thousands of bolts one by one. These 9 sets of XCMG HZS180 became the plants of largest volume and hourly concrete production capacity in the whole project.

In 2021, during the epidemic, XCMG RP953 paver, XD123 double steel wheel roller and XP163 tire roller all went out for the final completion work. It is worth mentioning that the pavers rollers in the bridge paving project are all from XCMG.

In addition, there are excavators, graders, aerial work platforms from XCMG. XCMG also sent nearly 20 service personnel around the clock to escort the smooth progress of the project. Bangladesh national television has reported XCMG's excellent performance in the project for many times.