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Nanjing Bridge
The double-decker road and rail bridge across the Yangtse at Nanjing was opened with great official fanfare in 1968. It was celebrated as a major achievement of socialist construction - symbolically linking the north and south of New China - images of the bridge appeared in newspapers, magazines, and schoolbooks, as well as on posters and Maozhang.
Middle School English language textbook, Tianjin 1973
Note that Wade-Giles Nanking had not yet become pinyin Nanjing; similarly Mao Tsetung instead of Mao Zedong.
h. 48mm w. 43mm 7.6g
40mm 5.8g
42mm 8.1g
53mm 10.2g
As with the Yangtse bridge at Wuhan, images of the Nanjing bridge were often accompanied by a line from Mao's poem Swimming, "A bridge will fly to span the north and south".
