Originally, planks had been laid across the nine chains, and the whole bridge, suspended between two cliffs, swayed like a cradle with the motions of the person walking upon it. Now the planks were gone, having been taken by the enemy into Luting City. All that remained were the black hanging chains.]
[1977 August 15 [1977 August 14], “Red Army Memorial, Exhibition Halls Reopen in Szechwan”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 157, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page J 2:
At the "Red Army Building" at the head of Luting Bridge, Luting County, are pictures of the old battlefield where the Red Army fought there, and wooden bowls and baskets used by the Red Army men at that time.]
2000, Paul Hattaway, Operation China: Introducing all the Pooples of China[2], Piquant, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 163, column 2:
A 1983 study listed 7,000 Guiqiong people.¹ They inhabit the tablelands along both banks of the Dadu River, north of Luding County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan Province.
2021 June 17, “'First Bridge of Sichuan-Tibet' spans two cliffs”, in Li Yuxin, editor, China News Service[3], archived from the original on June 18, 2021[4]:
Luding (Dadu Rivier) Bridge on Ya'an-Kargilik County Highway spans the Dadu River in Luding County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Sichuan Province. It shortens the distance between Ya'an City and Luding County, greatly benefitting local inhabitants.
2022 September 6, “China earthquake death toll jumps to 65 as aftershocks rattle Sichuan”, in EFE[5], archived from the original on 06 September 2022[6]:
As aftershocks of 3.0 magnitude or higher continued to rock the area, rescuers transported over 50,000 people from the hardest-hit Luding county, according to local media
