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The tunnels of the Underground City run beneath Beijing's city center, covering an area of 85 square kilometres (33 sq mi) 8 to 18 metres (26–59 ft) under the surface. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At one time there were about 90 entrances to the complex, all of which were hidden in shops along the main streets of Qianmen . [ 5 ]
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.
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 ...
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.
The tunnel is a part of a Thai-Chinese high-speed railway project linking the capital Bangkok to the northeastern province of Nong Khai, bordering Laos. Part of it collapsed on Saturday night while three foreign workers, one from Myanmar and two from China, were inside.
The hidden tunnel network extended for about 160 feet and had five different rooms. Some of the hidden tunnels at the 800-year-old home. Uncover more archaeological finds
A military megaproject, the nuclear base is located near what is now suburban Fuling, a municipality in Chongqing, China. In 2010, it was opened to Chinese tourists. It is a distinct network of nuclear-weapons manufacturing tunnels to the likewise defunct Underground Project 131 and the still operational "Underground Great Wall of China."
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