Soon you'll be able to cross China's longest glass bridge yet

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China just keeps building longer and longer glass bridges between its mountains.

Work on the latest and longest bridge is on track to be completed by June this year. When it's done, the bridge at the Tianmenshan National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie will stretch 430m (1410 ft) across a gorge, 300m (984 ft) up from the bottom of the valley.

The glass bridge in the mountainous Hunan province will be able to hold 800 people simultaneously, said People's Daily.

See also: 100 women did yoga on that vertigo-inducing glass bridge in China

This is where construction of the bridge stands now. The steel beams were recently completed.

Glass bridge across Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon to be opened to tourists by June 2016. Watch: https://t.co/JOszly6Mho pic.twitter.com/xwEfgd9xzI

— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) January 19, 2016

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Image: Xinhua/Long Hongtao

Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Skywalk's Steel Beams Get Completed
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Skywalk's Steel Beams Get Completed

Image: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images

Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Skywalk's Steel Beams Get Completed
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Skywalk's Steel Beams Get Completed

Image: ChinaFotoPress/GettyImages

You might recall the crazy 900-foot (274m) glass bridge that was just opened in September 2015 at the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park, also in the Hunan province. It's located roughly 500km (310 miles) away from the Zhangjiajie bridge.

The see-through bridge in Shiniuzhai is suspended across a canyon with a 600-foot (182m) drop, and was opened to much fanfare.

Lured by the promise of a boost to tourism, China's national parks have continued to dream up bolder and more ambitious bridge projects, despite one of the bridges cracking recently. The glass walkway at Yuntai Mountain Geological Park — not a suspension bridge, but providing a scary fall down the mountain all the same — cracked under tourists' feet in October 2015, and officials had to close the U-shaped pathway. It cracked just a month after it opened.

According to online forums, it was still closed in late November 2015.

This is the Yuntai walkway:

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