Nanjing municipal government said the city’s Hanzhongmen Bridge would have to be repaired properly, after a public outcry followed attempts by a local construction team to fix the cracks with glue, according to state media reports.

The 120-metre bridge is an important crossing that connects Hexi district and downtown Nanjing. Completed in November 2008, the bridge won a design excellence award in June this year.
Recently, however, officials found substantial cracks in 50 bridge railings.

When the authorities were alerted to the fact that the bridge had been mended with glue, they ordered the construction team to return to the bridge and repair it by the end of January and pay the Rmb500,000 bill themselves.