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China to build world's deepest high-speed rail station under Great Wall

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   The station at Badaling 80km from Beijing will link the capital to the
   host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics

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   Thu 29 Sep 2016 07.20 BST Last modified on Thu 29 Sep 2016 07.34 BST
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   Tourists crowd the Great Wall at Badaling where a new high-speed train
   line will stop.

   [ ] Tourists crowd the Great Wall at Badaling where a new high-speed
   train line will stop. Photograph: Imaginechina / Rex Features

   China will build the world’s deepest and largest high-speed railway
   station at a popular section of the country’s Great Wall as part of its
   preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics, state media has reported.

   The station will be at Badaling, the most visited section of the Great
   Wall which lies about 80km (50 miles) north-west of Beijing. The site
   received 30,000 tourists in just one day during the Chinese New Year
   holiday week, according to the China National Tourism Administration.

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   “The Badaling station will be located 102m (335ft) below the surface,
   with an underground construction area of 36,000sqm (387,501sqft), equal
   to five standard soccer fields, making it the deepest and largest
   high-speed railway station in the world,” Chen Bin, director in charge
   of construction for China Railway No 5 engineering group, told the
   People’s Daily newspaper.

   The station will sit along a railway network that will link Beijing
   with Zhangjiakou, the host city for the Winter Olympics.
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   Badaling station will sit in the mountains under the Great Wall, and
   will require the use of advanced explosion technologies to ensure that
   the Unesco world heritage site will not be affected, the railway group
   also said.

   China has embarked on an ambitious programme of railway construction,
   which includes the world’s longest high-speed line between Beijing and
   Guangzhou.

   The railways ministry plans to invest $400bn (£248bn) to complete a
   10,000-mile network by 2020, with four main lines running east to west
   and four from north to south.
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