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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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
It is longest tunnel on the line from Goldmod to Lhasa, and part of one of the highest railways in the world, [2] The highest rail tunnel in the world is the 1,338 m Fenghuoshan tunnel which is situated at 4,905 m above sea level, and called "the nearest door to the heaven." This railroad totals a combined length of 160 km of 675 bridges.
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.
Longest tunnel on the upgraded dual-track Xining–Golmud section of Qinghai–Tibet Railway, longest railway tunnel in China until 2016, 3323.58–3380.97 meters above sea level Metro Meijo Line – Meikō Line: Nagoya Municipal Subway, Japan 32,400 m (20.132 mi) 1965–2004 Metro Guangzhou Metro: Line 2: Guangzhou, China 32,000 m (19.884 mi) 2010