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The Guoliang Tunnel (Chinese: 郭亮洞) is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains which are situated in Huixian , Xinxiang , Henan Province of China.
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.
[6] [7] The bridge and tunnel were planned together as the Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project. [8] The contiguous length of the tunnel road is about 7.8 km (4.8 mi), part of which is underground and part under the sea. [9] The sub-sea portion is 3.95 km (2.45 mi). [9] The deepest point of the crown of the tube to sea level is 74 meters. [9]
Hoh Xil or Kekexili (Mongolian for "Blue Ridge", also Aqênganggyai for "Lord of Ten Thousand Mountains"), is an isolated region in the northeastern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. On July 7, 2017, the Hoh Xil in Qinghai was listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites as "the largest and highest plateau in the world".
Eagle's Nest Tunnel (cross-mountain) (road) Eastern Harbour Crossing / Tseung Kwan O line (road and metro) Kai Tak Tunnel (beneath site of former Hong Kong International Airport) (road) Lion Rock Tunnel (cross-mountain) (road and water pipe) Sha Tin Heights Tunnel (cross-mountain) (road) Shing Mun Tunnels (cross-mountain) (road) Tai Lam Tunnel ...
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.
"SHANHAI-KWAN, a garrison town in the extreme east of the province of Chih-li, China. Pop. about 30,000. It is situated at the point where the range of hills carrying the Great Wall of China dips to the sea, leaving a kwon or pass of limited extent between China proper and Manchuria. It is thus an important military station, and the ...
Gaoligongshan Tunnel or Gaoligong Mountain Rail Tunnel [6] (Chinese: 高黎贡山隧道) is a 34.5 km (21.4 mi) [Note 1] tunnel between Nujiang Station and Longling Station on the Dali–Ruili railway in Yunnan, China. [4] It passes through the entirety of Longling County and then into Mangshi. [1]