From April 4–8, 2026, a working delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction, led by Deputy Minister Phạm Minh Hà, visited and worked in China to exchange experience in the design and construction of railway bridges and combined rail-road cable-stayed bridges for both rail and road traffic.
During the visit, the delegation held discussions on standards, design, and construction of railway bridges and combined rail–road cable-stayed bridges with Chinese research institutes and major bridge engineering companies, such as the China Railway Bridge Research and Design Institute, China Railway Bridge Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd., Pacific Construction Group, VSL China Group, China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group Co., Ltd., and PowerChina Group Co., Ltd., among others.
Deputy Minister Pham Minh Ha and the Ministry of Construction delegation worked with BRDI.
During the meeting with the China Railway Bridge Research and Design Institute (BRDI), the Institute's leaders introduced its capabilities and experience in designing cable-stayed bridges for both railway and road use.
BRDI has considered bridge survey and design as its core business and has completed more than 1,000 large and mega-scale bridges serving highways, railways, and urban infrastructure, including dozens of crossings over the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and sea-crossing bridges.
BRDI provides comprehensive consulting and design services, operating across multiple fields such as supervision, inspection, and assessment of bridges and tunnels, railway and expressway infrastructure, urban engineering works, as well as architectural design and urban–rural planning.
A BRDI representative also gave the delegation an overview of China’s system of standards and technical regulations, along with practical experience in surveying, designing, constructing, and maintaining railway bridges and combined rail–road cable-stayed bridges. This is a key focus that the Ministry of Construction’s delegation aimed to discuss and learn about in order to develop Vietnam’s system of standards and technical regulations for railway bridges and combined rail–road bridges in the coming period.
Deputy Minister Phạm Minh Hà and the delegation have also made some working sessions with major Chinese enterprises specializing in the design and construction of large-scale bridges. Chinese enterprises’ leaders introduced their capabilities and experience in surveying, design, construction, operation management, and maintenance of railway bridges and combined rail–road cable-stayed bridges in China and around the world.
The valuable reference is useful for state management agencies under the Ministry of Construction, the My Thuan Project Management Board, as well as Vietnamese consulting and construction enterprises in developing similar projects in the near future.
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Deputy Minister Phạm Minh Ha and the delegation held working sessions with VSL China and Pacific Construction Group.
During the working trip, the delegation also visited the VSL China cable-stayed bridge manufacturing plant, which introduced the system of materials used for prestressed concrete structures, cable stays, and the technology for producing cable-stayed bridge materials. The delegation surveyed several combined rail-road cable-stayed bridges for both rail and road traffic in China, such as the Changtai Bridge and Nanjing No. 5 Bridge across the Yangtze River, which are already in operation, and the Ma'anshan Bridge in Anhui Province, which is under construction and expected to be put into operation in September 2026.
The delegation visited the Changtai Bridge and Ma'anshan Bridge.
At the end of the working trip, Deputy Minister Pham Minh Ha asked agencies and units of the Ministry, such as the Planning and Finance Department, the Authority for Construction Investment Economics and Management, the Department of Science, Technology, Environment and Construction Materials, the Department of International Cooperation, and the My Thuan Project Management Board to continue studying and synthesizing the issues discussed in order to organize the development and completion of a system of standards and regulations on railway and road bridges in particular, and on technical infrastructure issues in general in Vietnam.
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Deputy Minister Pham Minh Ha and the delegation made a survey and working trip to China from April 4-8, 2026.