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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.
[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]
Feng (mythology), an edible monster that resembles a two-eyed lump of meat and magically grows back as fast as it is eaten. Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake. Feilong, winged legendary creature that flies among clouds. Fish in Chinese mythology ...
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.
Due to the lack of manpower and money to maintain the tunnel, it was closed and abandoned in 1986. Later on, there was growing interest in preserving the national heritage and remembering those who fought for Kinmen, thus on 23 May 1997, the Kinmen National Park took over the management of the tunnel. The tunnel was opened to the public in 1998 ...
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.
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 ...
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".