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Construction of the tunnel started in 1961 and was completed on 22 March 1966, a few years after the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1958 between the Republic of China Armed Forces and People's Liberation Army. Due to the lack of manpower and money to maintain the tunnel, it was closed and abandoned in 1986.
It is also rumoured that every residence once had a secret trapdoor nearby leading to the tunnels. [2] In the event of a nuclear attack, the plan was to move half of Beijing's population underground and the other half to the Western Hills. [1] The tunnels were built by more than 300,000 local citizens, including school students, on volunteer ...
Underground Project 131 (Chinese: "131"地下工程; pinyin: "131" Dìxià gōngchéng) is a system of tunnels in Hubei province constructed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s to accommodate the Chinese People's Liberation Army command headquarters in case of a nuclear war. The facility was never fully completed or used, and is currently ...
Located nearly 280 feet under the ground, the cavernous rooms and tunnels were once home to 20,000 people. The region's stony spires hide 18 levels of living space connected by tunnels.
A secret tunnel that was used by China and the former Soviet Union was reportedly discovered in China's Heilongjiang province, according to the Siberian Times. Back in the 1930's when both China ...
They are sloped criss-crossing tunnels which connect the midpoints of the five water tunnels (four headrace and one drainage) to the road tunnels beside and slightly above them. Totalling 210,000 m 3 (7.4 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft), [ 24 ] : 4 and originally intended to be blocked off after construction, [ 23 ] : 20 they have been donated to the ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A passenger bus collided into a tunnel wall in north China's Shanxi province on Tuesday, killing 14 people and injuring 37 others, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday.
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.