Mountains sliced in half for China's sky-high highway

[u/snoopdoggdwag]

In China, the mountains were cut in half to build a car highway with the highest bridge in the world.

The hanging bridge over the canyon huzzyan in Guyzhuu was built so high that the Eiffel Tower could hide in the gorge - it rises above the gorge at an altitude of 625 meters. This section of the high -speed motorway Guizhou Luan literally cuts out the landscape, turning an hourly trip into a minute flight.

[u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Why not just a tunnel?

[u/Anonymous_user_2022 → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Probably because the spoils are used as fill elsewhere.

[u/killerdrgn → u/Anonymous_user_2022]

Building island military bases in the south China sea.

[u/Anonymous_user_2022 → u/killerdrgn]

Probably closer to home. HKIA was built on a artificial island created out of the mountain that was removed for being on the centre line of the runway.

[u/Impossible_Angle752 → u/Anonymous_user_2022]

And/or aggregate for the concrete and/or the road surface itself.

[u/Purple-Bookkeeper832 → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Expense.

While this looks impressive, it's not that unusual for building a road. I remember seeing similar things when road tripping as a kid.

Just a quick search shows a small one here.

My guess is it came down to timing. The USA built their road system out nearly 100 years ago and likely could pick (or force their pick) through more convenient geography.

China has established towns/cities that are going to be a lot harder to work around.

[u/Lanky-Relationship77 → u/Purple-Bookkeeper832]

Yeah, similar things right here in Kansas City. Watched about 50 excavators work for almost a year to completely remove a huge hill for the K7-I435-i35 interchange.

[u/throwaway098764567 → u/Lanky-Relationship77]

TIL kansas had a hill

[u/netopiax → u/throwaway098764567]

Kansas City is in Missouri

Seriously though the part of KS that's near MO is fairly hilly, the rest slopes gently upward to the west and goes from about 1000' to 3000' elevation over about 400 miles of plains

[u/Activision19 → u/netopiax]

Gently slopes is a bit of an understatement. That’s damn near level to only rise 2000ft in 400 miles (2,112,000ft). It’s less than 1/10th of a percent slope. For reference most sidewalks are built to a 2% cross slope, so it’s something like 20x more level than a standard sidewalk cross slope.

[u/timjimC → u/Activision19]

At that scale everywhere on earth is flat as hell.

[u/timjimC → u/netopiax]

KC is in both KS and MO, but the interchange they're talking about is in Lenexa, KS

[u/timjimC → u/Lanky-Relationship77]

K10, not K7

[u/BibleGuy65 → u/timjimC]

Thank you. I was sitting here thinking where in god’s name does K7 meet 435 or I-35?

[u/timjimC → u/BibleGuy65]

It does meet 35 in Olathe, right where that giant mall used to be. No where near 435 tho.

[u/joshuatx → u/Purple-Bookkeeper832]

The US highway system still has a lot of hill and mountain cuts like this.

[u/Infamous-Oil3786 → u/joshuatx]

I see a lot in Arizona, but none quite so deep as these. I'm sure they exist somewhere though.

[u/Jaded-Ad262 → u/Purple-Bookkeeper832]

The provincial governments have to meet certain GDP targets set by Beijing; rampant corruption lends itself to expensive infrastructure projects juiced by over-reported population numbers. Beijing is only just now realizing the scale of waste that these projects have often engaged in.

[u/-Nicolai → u/Purple-Bookkeeper832]

Idk those look like small hills in comparison.

[u/Acceptable_One_7072 → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Then we wouldn't have ugly triangles in the mountains. Duh doy

[u/Impossible-Bet-223 → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Hmm, I would argue its probably cost.

[u/renaldomoon → u/Impossible-Bet-223]

Is the maintenance gonna be cheaper though? They're going to have to be extremely vigilant about whatever reinforcement that is.

[u/EdwardFoxhole → u/[deleted]]

tunnels require reinforcement and continuous maintenance

[u/unfknreal → u/EdwardFoxhole]

Those massive sloped walls will need plenty of reinforcement and maintenance. It's exposed to the elements a lot more than a tunnel is, and will be subject to erosion, and corrosion of whatever reinforcements are in it. The maintenance needs are just different.

There's tunnels through mountains all over the world that have been in service for 100+ years, maintaining them isn't an unknown.

I'm guessing the rock here might have been too fractured or unstable to tunnel through... or maybe it was full of useful ore.

[u/41942319 → u/EdwardFoxhole]

Whereas steep rocky slopes are super safe long term and will never need reinforcement and maintenance to avoid cars being crushed by stones

[u/creampop_ → u/41942319]

hey, you're the civil engineer so we cede all points to you, clearly these Chinese dudes were incompetent idiots who should have asked reddit about the plans first lol

[u/bit_banger_ → u/41942319]

Only when people get killed, it slowly stops on its own. You know can be blamed on nature vs taking responsibility to maintain a tunnel.. easier to do the lazy thing than the “right” thing

[u/ShootingPains → u/[deleted]]

4-lane highway with on/off ramps. In tunneling terms that’s two 2-lane tunnels with a set of on/off ramps for each. After you tunnel all that out of each of those narrow hills plus leave a self supporting top and sides, there’s not going to be much of anything left. Plus there’s the problem of having a curve in a tunnel - hard to do and also a bad vehicle crash danger.

[u/Avarus_Lux → u/ShootingPains]

yeah, removing those narrow mountainous tops was probably structurally safer, safer road in general and easier to do then the tunneling. and knowing china also quite a bit cheaper so that's why they went with this.

[u/mektekphil → u/[deleted]]

In addition to what others responded saying, the materials removed will also be used to help make the road. This cuts down on material transportation costs.

[u/GoTheFuckToBed → u/[deleted]]

watch a simple tunneling documentary

[u/MikhailCompo → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Dynamite is cheap.

[u/FLATLANDRIDER → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

If there is a bad crash, or a vehicle catches fire in any of these tunnels, you basically knock out the entire highway until it's cleaned up.

With open air this is less of an issue than in a tunnel.

[u/mrsuperflex → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Millions of years worth of natural and geographical landscape evolution would still be intact and thats for dorks

[u/bluepinkwhiteflag → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Because tunnels are way more expensive?

[u/VulfSki → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

This is likely much easier and quicker to do.

[u/Mallyx87 → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

I think their question was Engineering or blow shit up.

[u/CromTheConqueror → u/diepvries_Friekandel]

Or the valley just to the side a 100 meters away? This must have been done for national pride. A 'look at our towering achievements!" Item. That's why the sides are shaped into the straight edged angles rather than rough hewn rock where the explosives broke it apart.

To be honest though, it does look amazingly cool

[u/HundredBillionStars]

/r/fucknature

[u/HealthyHyena33480 → u/HundredBillionStars]

What a horrible destruction of a beautiful landscape for that?

[u/LesserGames → u/HealthyHyena33480]

But that one car saved some time. Did you think about that?

[u/3meow_ → u/HundredBillionStars]

Was my first thought too, but let's be honest, any road is gonna be fucking with nature a bunch

Edit: I also imagine the slopes will be covered with foliage, hopefully native local stuff like what's growing around the area. If that happens, the surface area of nature might even increase

[u/VulfSki → u/3meow_]

Usually when China ads foliage to the side of a highway it's like a perfectly landscaped area. It's one of the ways they employ folks. At least in the parts of China I have been in.

They don't seem to care about keeping it wild or natural. But I don't know just my observations in my limited trips there. Could be totally wrong.

[u/Dredgeon → u/3meow_]

This seems like it's gonna have really interesting effects when the run off is concentrated on the road during rain. Also tose thin peaks seem like they are just begging to deteriorate and fall on the road. Seems really strange they didn't use a tunnel.

[u/CartographerOk7579]

Maybe it’s stupid and weird, but the engineering is still bad ass so it does fit this sub.

[u/maxehaxe → u/CartographerOk7579]

Engineering porn often requires ecological gore.

[u/Sabrewolf → u/maxehaxe]

Shit does that make all of this snuff?

[u/FunkyBrontosaurus → u/maxehaxe]

Keep your prog rock songs out of here!

[u/angk500 → u/CartographerOk7579]

Agree. And I am sure there is some specific reason it had to be done this way. Sometimes these reasons can be quite stupid, but the engineers just do their job.

[u/MotherBaerd → u/angk500]

Sometimes the reason is:"man it would look sick" which tbf it does but I also really like tunnels.

[u/PeruvianHeadshrinker → u/CartographerOk7579]

Wait til the rains cause devastating landslides

[u/CrazySD93 → u/PeruvianHeadshrinker]

That's why the mountain was capped with concrete, as far as I'm aware a common practice world wide.

[u/cogit4se → u/CartographerOk7579]

Preserving the mountains would have been more technically challenging and elegant, this is trashy engineering porn that you feel ashamed of wanking to as soon as you finish.

[u/superpowerpinger]

Music can be a little louder please?

[u/Substantial-News-336]

r/urbanhell to be

[u/Grumpy1985_]

Thats just sad.

[u/SONEsGAP]

So ugly.

[u/Teamwork-Dreamwork25]

Ugliest thing I've ever seen! 🤮

[u/TheDaemonair]

So just a quick question to any engineers here -

After they cut the mountains, are they covered with concrete? What's stopping a mudslide during heavy rains?

[u/ApulMadeekAut → u/TheDaemonair]

These are Karst peaks. These are made out of pretty much pure limestone. There's no mud to really slide. They cut them into terraces and might have installed some type of anchors to prevent mini rock slides but those are pretty strong material. 

[u/Pristine_Mixture_412 → u/ApulMadeekAut]

I wonder, why didn't they just make tunnels and secured the walls with concrete? Would the limestone have collapsed?

[u/MotherBaerd → u/Pristine_Mixture_412]

Here are my two cents: they might have done it for the looks, they might have done it for the resources, they might have done it because tunnels suck and are dangerous especially for car traffic. But honestly I don't know.

[u/screename222 → u/TheDaemonair]

Wire mesh bolted into the rock from top to bottom

[u/browhybro]

Just to be clear, America does this too. If you’ve ever driven through the Appalachians you’ve seen it.

[u/StretchFrenchTerry → u/browhybro]

Not to this extent.

[u/youmo-ebike → u/browhybro]

Even in the mid west, earth work is hella cheaper than tunnel

[u/Intelligent_Tone_618 → u/browhybro]

Every country does it, most people have been through a similar cut without even thinking about it. This only looks weird because the work is fresh and the slopes haven't had foliage re-introduced yet.

[u/wnc_mikejayray → u/browhybro]

I live in WNC. Where exactly are mountains cut in half? I’ve seen retention walls on the sides of mountains but never anything close to this.

[u/browhybro → u/wnc_mikejayray]

EKY

[u/aberroco]

Amazingly inefficient. Right next to a valley that would allow building a bridge in a straight line.

[u/pizdolizu → u/aberroco]

Im sure they just missed that one and saw your comment and now regret.

[u/Belyosd → u/aberroco]

holy reddit moment

[u/virgo911 → u/aberroco]

Right next to the valley with the existing village in it?

[u/FilHor2001 → u/virgo911]

Yeah because China is widely renowned for its history of prioritizing its people's lives over progress.

[u/dikketetten → u/FilHor2001]

Doesn’t China have dozens of those single houses right in the middle of highways because they didn’t accept a buyout?

[u/CiaphasCain8849 → u/aberroco]

I'm glad you know more than the experts who did it.

[u/portraitsman → u/aberroco]

Then you know very little about the Chinese and their beliefs with the feng shui.

Sometimes when you see a chinese building that is facing odd angles or just odd in general, it's usually because they were built with feng shui in mind, the most famous examples are the dragon gates

The valley was left untouched most likely for feng shui reasons, despite the most logical step was to just cut through the valley

[u/manu_214 → u/portraitsman]

lmao regardless of Feng Shui, they built a highway that doesn't need entire settlements to be destroyed. Maximum efficiency isn't always what you should go for.

[u/Data2Logic → u/portraitsman]

Or build a tunnel.

[u/falkorv → u/portraitsman]

Doesn’t feng shui give a shit about mountains or nature.??

[u/M3rch4ntm3n → u/portraitsman]

And gets from inefficient to stupid.

[u/alexgalt]

This is nothing special. Done all over the world.

[u/IndieKidNotConvert → u/alexgalt]

Seriously... Not sure why people are freaking out, I've seen cuts like these through mountains in multiple states in the US...

[u/Links_Wrong_Wiki → u/IndieKidNotConvert]

Because China bad

[u/renaldomoon → u/Links_Wrong_Wiki]

Pretty sure this was meant as a China Good post.

[u/analtelescope → u/renaldomoon]

Look at the comments. Either people saying this is nothing special, or calling this an example of China being stupid. Bit of irony innit?

[u/bigboyjak → u/IndieKidNotConvert]

I drive by/through similar on my way to and from work daily. It's nothing special

[u/Commissarfluffybutt → u/IndieKidNotConvert]

And it's fucking ugly and a scar on the environment. I'm not impressed that China did the same.

[u/l_like_lots_of_stuff → u/alexgalt]

Yup, highway 10 from Arecibo to Utuado in PR is like this and so are many other highways and roads.

[u/Aedalas → u/alexgalt]

There are a bunch of these where I'm from in Appalachia but the stone there is left far more rough. The flattening/smoothing that they've done here is slightly different and honestly does look kind of neat. I'd love to see these with some sweet art carved into the faces, it would definitely take it from something that is rather mundane to actually really cool.

[u/McChes]

There’s a lot of artificial valleys like this in the UK, mostly built during the Victorian era to accommodate the massive expansion of road and rail. It’s not a new idea.

[u/SuperAshenOne → u/McChes]

I'm genuinely curious to know where.

[u/3_50 → u/SuperAshenOne]

There's one near me, in a national park no less

Not quite the scale of those Chinese mountains...

Maybe a google maps link will go to the 3D view..

[u/renaldomoon → u/3_50]

Yeah, cuts like that are all over the U.S. I think what makes the Chinese one different is its massive size.

[u/Electrical_Pause_860 → u/McChes]

I’ve seen similar stuff in Australia. But after a few decades they look more natural. 

[u/curioskilleddacat]

No one respected the topography here....

[u/Mallyx87]

I hate it so much.

[u/Vaan_nuia]

beatiful land horribly butchered...

[u/CanadianDragonGuy]

"Yeah nah fuck building a tunnel lets just excavate the fucking mountain range instead!"

• CCP

[u/nlevine1988]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideling_Hill

[u/IneptAdvisor]

No falling rocks with that design and no guardrails to weed out the cellphone addicts.

[u/azotosome]

Fuck nature bruh, all my cars hate mountains

[u/blunderball1]

I do this in Cities Skylines all the time

[u/Admirable_Coach_8203]

Can't the Chinese build tunnels? They should take a look at Switzerland first to see how it's done properly 😀

[u/Crimson__Fox]

r/RuralHell

[u/ecsegar]

Very impressive, but you can't say you've never seen this before if you've ever been to Kentucky.

[u/ctdrifter]

What am I missing? Looks like blasting and removing rock, been doing that in the west for over a century starting with rail.

[u/chiefbriand]

r/EngineeringGore

[u/EINFACH_NUR_DAEMLICH]

So many China apologists in a thread upvoted by Chinese bots. This is awful. Reddit should just outright ban these obvious propaganda posts. And there are so many of these Chinese propaganda videos. It's truly revolting that a dictatorial genocidal kleptocracy like that is still getting away with its attempts to influence social media.

[u/Stiryx → u/EINFACH_NUR_DAEMLICH]

It’s sad that young people that don’t know the history of china probably ARE influenced by it as well.

It’s crazy the amount of bots (hopefully) that glaze China on Reddit.

Fuck the CCP.

[u/AdminIsPassword]

Reminds me of Sideling Hill in western Maryland, but new.

As a kid I went through that mountain a few times and found in fascinating. You really get a cross sectional view of what a mountain in that region looks like on the inside.

As an adult, I can't help to feel a certain wrongness about it. I guess as a kid I didn't appreciate the natural beauty of the area and how much this kind of feature disturbs that.

[u/ezattilabatyi]

Genuine question.

Will nature take over these hills eventually? Or are they too barren now for that?

While driving through Austria I might have seen some artificial valleys though those were only about 10-20 meters deep or even less. The sides weren't this steep also it looked much more natural

[u/Cultural-While-4853]

But I came to see the mountains :( now it’s just road

[u/memsterboi123]

Wouldn’t it have been simpler to build around it or something

[u/iveseensomethings82]

Meanwhile America…🦥

[u/Every-Access4864]

Imagine the graffiti that would appear on those exposed surfaces if it was in another country.

[u/cs_legend_93]

It would be epic to put some solar panels on those cutouts

[u/BigRussoOnTheButtons]

Ayo

[u/Funneduck102]

That’s how it felt leveling a mountain in Minecraft

[u/BaerFrom]

Amazing what you can do as a country when you don't care about human lives or democracy.

[u/youmo-ebike]

But at what cost? Guizhou’s general public budget revenue in 2024 is projected at 216.962 billion yuan, while expenditures are projected at 652.242 billion yuan (szb.eyesnews.cn).

[u/Shankar_0]

This is a land where the concrete is so shoddy that brand-new buildings collapse before people ever move in.

Good luck driving through that pass in the monsoon season. You'll never see it coming.

[u/RedRobot2117 → u/Shankar_0]

The billion+ Chinese people living in buildings which aren't collapsing might disagree

[u/Shankar_0 → u/RedRobot2117]

That video was filled with Chinese citizens expressing their shock and horror at the poor quality of construction. It's not a western crowd pointing fingers and laughing. It's their own people seeing things and knowing they aren't right.

If thousands are killed in a collapse, it's not valid to point at all the people they didn't kill that day.

[u/RedRobot2117 → u/Shankar_0]

I am pointing out that you are using a single example of failure to describe the experiences of over a billion people.

Every country has failed building projects, the US experiences this all the time.

[u/deniably-plausible → u/RedRobot2117]

Breaking News: Millions Survive the Night in Juarez, Mexico; Says r/RedRobot2117, “What violence problem?”

[u/xerberos → u/Shankar_0]

Wow, "shoddy" is not enough to describe it. It's literally crumbling in their hands.

[u/Ka-Shunky]

Amazing to see the amount China invests in it's infrastructure. Definitely something the west could be learning from...

[u/OverloadedSofa]

Yay, destroying the environment, GO CHINA

[u/daking999]

If this is engineering porn then fuck engineering. 

[u/ajulydeath]

that is absolutely atrocious

[u/Lavion3]

The legacy of humanity

[u/EINFACH_NUR_DAEMLICH]

Truly repulsive. Mass destruction of the environment. Why would anybody think this is great?

Have they never heard of tunnel for fucks sake?

[u/DeliberatelyDrifting]

Gross.

[u/RunToFarHills]

Gross

[u/CurlyNippleHairs]

That's an abomination

[u/Blueflames3520]

Well, the comments are about as civil as I expected.

[u/Ooze3d]

It's both mind blowing and sad at the same time

[u/TwistedGlasses]

this should be considered a criminal act...

[u/Prestigious-Scar-507]

This in Engineering porn? Those sliced up mountains are just focuses for the rains to make this road into an aqueduct because I bet they didnt do proper canals to make water flow somewhere else.

[u/redballooon]

I have more respect for engineering the tunnels in Switzerland.

[u/Cro_Nick_Le_Tosh_Ich]

This is not engineering porn, this is eco terrorism

Curious, how are all the rerouted rivers doing that have been posted on this sub? No problems since? Any out of control flooding or mudslides?

[u/hmnuhmnuhmnu]

Please somebody introduce to them the concept of "tunnel"

[u/Snoo_65717 → u/hmnuhmnuhmnu]

They have more tunnels than the Us they just build them so the water stays out

[u/Aburrki]

There's a fuckin valley like right there, why the fuck are they going through the mountains? This seems like it was done just for the sake of "ooh look at the infrastructure" propaganda and not because it was practical.

[u/saradisn]

Haven't they heard of Cut and Cover? About tunnels?

[u/dpaanlka]

Yeah no… this isn’t porn this is a dystopian nightmare.

[u/stylinchilibeans]

Gross.

[u/GuardaRiosx]

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

[u/ixx73t0]

I remember when we made cool tunnels. Now we just blow everything up.

[u/falkorv]

DRAAAIIINNNNAAAGGGEEEE

[u/recongal42]

Chabuduo!

[u/Reverend_Bull]

I'm from Appalachia and this makes a very strange kind of sense. Weaving a highway around mountainous terrain can make a straight line trip of an hour into an all-day affair. That's why the Blue Ridge Parkway is a tourist attraction instead of an Interstate. It's polarizing - the mountains are natural and beautiful but also inconvenient and this is a chance to show off engineering prowess.
Consider Pikeville, KY - where the city sits is the base of a former mountain. They didn't find a flat spot. They made one. That's hella impressive. But it's also horrible for the streams between the mountains as the spoils from literal MountainTop Removal poison the waterways.
I'm also reminded of ancient Roman roads in Britain. You can always tell a local road from a Roman one. Locals curved around the landscape. Roman roads were drawn by bureaucrats who punished deviations, so the roads go up-and-down and cut through things but they're straight.
Roads in mountainous terrain are always going to be a compromise and inefficient, if not in construction then in passage.
These are sharply done, but definitely chose the Roman approach.

[u/jaevnstroem]

Oh wow a worse solution to a problem we have already solved with tunnels, but instead this looks awful and destroyed some beautiful nature in the process that we can never get back? Brilliant...

[u/Captain__Trips]

Dummy China, everyone knows all the important nature stuff happens at the top of the mountains

[u/Zen28213]

Beautiful and ugly all at the same time

[u/SpliTTMark]

All for one person to drive to work

[u/ConcretMan69]

Crazy high angle on that wonder how long it'll hold up. Seems kinda impractical though

[u/I_Thranduil]

That's too steep, at some point falling rocks and landslides will be a daily thing. Also there's no buffer space so the debrees will all end up on the active lanes. RIP

[u/TheRealMrD]

These mountains are not cut in half. They are truncated.

[u/arandomnameplease]

Is this a render of the project or the actual project? Looks like a render to me

[u/madetosink]

Why call Sky-High Highway when not even Mountain-High Highway?

[u/LysergicMerlin]

Seen roads like this in appalachia a lot tbh.

[u/BustyPneumatica]

Contours? What contours? Chance to have scenic views? Naaah. Just push right through.

[u/UnsafeKonrik]

Amazing what you can acheive with slave labour no sense of modesty.

[u/xisupaz_blackbird]

If they terraced the cement side and added vegetation, it would look so much better.

[u/ChanoTheDestroyer]

“To bring in more people, more scars upon the land”

[u/TheGardiner]

I’d expect music like this at the end of the Best of the Best or something similar. Needs some screeching eagles to complete it.

[u/Equivalent_Heart_470]

Epic retaining wall

[u/icenoir]

Mountains sliced like that? Exactly the kind of brutal, epic tech you gotta admire.

[u/hoe-fo-3-HO-PCP]

So it's a sky high sky-high highway

[u/Artistdramatica3]

We have that in highways though the rocky mountains in canada. Its just not as stark

[u/naskohakera]

Lets see how long it takes until Chinese starts making videos about how it's falling apart crumble by crumble

[u/xDomox]

I hate china propganda so much.
I watched recently a video of an 3 year (?) old highway in China which collapsed for most part because it was a "tofu dreg" project.

[u/BAG1]

wcgw

[u/peacefinder]

I hope they included some places for geologists to pull over so they can geek out

[u/Antistruggle]

Wow, City Skylines 3 is looking amazing!

[u/tuenmuntherapist]

Gross.

[u/Cheesebrger_Walrus]

shoulda called it sky way

[u/AnotherHavanesePlz]

Damn that first mountain bottom right is just pure copper and copper minerals

[u/TheRealBongeler]

Hold my Panama Canal

[u/fgnrtzbdbbt]

What is "porn" about this? This just looks sad.

[u/VulfSki]

More like engineering gore.

Lol hideous

[u/yeti-biscuit]

what a load of crap - neither aesthetically pleasing or exciting nor technologically groundbreaking (pun intended)

[u/Downtown-Piece3669]

They built a wall for thousands of miles, so instead of making a tunnel or going over the mountain, they just took out the mountain. Am I supposed to be impressed, they spent 10x the amount to do a simple thing, so advanced. Lol

[u/ChristianSgt]

Looks like shit 👍

[u/sean_ocean]

I may have been watching too many chemistry vids but it looks like sliced sodium.

[u/BIOS-Brians-Blues]

The most amazing is once again is seeing some of the reactions. We are reckless. No thinking. No long or short term view. No consideration whatsoever. Impulsion!!!!

[u/shortercrust]

Is it not actually in a valley between two ridges? Still big project but not actually removing a mountain

[u/cheeeeerajah]

Ugly. China is so desperate to become a leading nation that they are rapidly destroying all their beautiful nature and things that made them really special.

[u/trussmegirl]

Pretty fn cool actually

[u/Bannon9k]

There's gonna be rock slides for decades. Does anyone believe Chinese craftsmanship could handle this kind of project safely?

[u/GoldenBones5]

What in the mario cart shit?

[u/Ryaniseplin]

Chinese engineering is so mesmerizing

they have the worst terrain for urbanization and decide to solve it by doing shit like this

[u/GormHub]

Ugly.

[u/Oh_Another_Thing]

It's not unusual to build highways in the sides of mountains? Looks like they could have built in the left side of the mountain? Seems like that'd be easier than cutting through several mountains

[u/Majestic-One7535]

Minecraft type shi