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816 Nuclear Military Plant, underground top secret facility

Last Updated on 2022/04/22

816 Nuclear Military Plant (816地下核工厂) was a huge underground top-secret facility hidden in the mountains of Baitao town, in the Chongqing area.

Work on the plant began in 1966 as the tension between China and the Soviet Union. 816 plant, built to withstand up to 8.0-magnitude earthquakes, has 18 main caverns (the largest of which is 80 meters high) and 21 km of tunnels and passageways. The project was never finished after a 740 million RMB investment and the work stopped in 1984. The plant opened to domestic tourists in April 2010. Inside you can find a retro-futurist Chinese computer from the seventies.

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In 1966, during the Sino-Soviet relations crisis, China started a few national defense programs to prevent a possible Soviet invasion, such as Beijing Underground City and the 816 Nuclear Military Plant. After the approval of then-Premier Zhou Enlai, the base was built by more than 60,000 engineering soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. The surface of the cave is more than 104,000 square meters. and the total length of the tunnels is more than 20 km. The project was canceled in February 1984.

Related: Chinese nuclear tests during the Sixties

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A visual show welcomed visitors when the facility re-opened in September 2016.
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Source s1979.com via Gochengdoo

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