Houston Community News >> Chinese Nuclear Base Opens to Tourists
5/3/2007 -- CHINA'S first
nuclear weapons base has been declassified and opened to tourists, state media
said Thursday.
The base in Qinghai province was the birthplace of the country's atomic bombs,
the Xinhua news agency reported.
"The underground headquarters of the nuclear weapons research and production
base are a curiosity to many people," Zuo Xumin, an official from the area, was
quoted as saying.
"They can see the 'nuclear city' for themselves," he said.
The headquarters of the base, built in 1958, comprised eight large underground
rooms built with reinforced concrete.
The base, which stretched over 1,100 sq km, was shut in 1987 until its
resurrection as a tourist venue.
(Contributed by News.com.au)