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The Jinping-II Dam hydroelectric power project involved excavating a number of large tunnels under the Jinping Mountains: four large 16.7 km (10.4 mi) headrace tunnels carrying water east, [8]: 30 two 17.5 km (10.9 mi) vehicular access tunnels, [9]: 1 and one water drainage tunnel.
A report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study mapping out China's complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the size of the Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the tunnel network.
This list of tunnels in China includes any road, rail or waterway tunnel in China. Beijing. Xiaoyue Tunnel; Chongqing. Baiyun Tunnel (cross-mountain) (road)
Rising nationalism under Modi has come alongside a similar phenomenon in China, where leader Xi Jinping has overseen an assertive foreign policy – though both sides have appeared to take steps ...
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is gathering world leaders in Beijing this week for a high profile forum with a clear set of goals: laud China’s role backing economic development over the past decade ...
An unfinished apartment building in Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou, China's central Henan province, seen on June 20, 2023. - Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images/File
There are four classes of road tunnels in China by length. [1]Super-long tunnel (>3,000m) Long tunnel (1,000m-3,000m) Middle-tunnel (250m-1,000m) Short tunnel (<250m) By 2012, there are 10,022 road tunnels and 8,052.7 km in total length in mainland China, including 441 super-long tunnels with 1,984.8 km in total length and 1,944 long tunnels with 3,304.4 km in total length.
Jinjiazhuang Tunnel (Chinese: 金家庄隧道) or Jinjiazhuang Spiral Tunnel (Chinese: 金家庄螺旋隧道), is the world's longest highway spiral tunnel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The spiral has a curve radius of 860 metres (2,820 ft) and the elevation difference between the tunnel entrance and exit is 112 metres (367 ft).