Guoliang Tunnel

The Guoliang Tunnel is cut at the edge of and through a mountain in China. The passage interfaces the town of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains which are arranged in Huixian, Xinxiang, Henan Province of China. The town was named after an outlaw agitator amid the Han Dynasty, who had battled a staggering royal power to a halt using the outrageous neighborhood landscape. Before the passage was built, access to the close-by town of Guoliang was limited to a troublesome way cut into the mountainside. The town is settled in a valley encompassed by transcending mountains cut off from outside development.
To facilitate the villagers' entrance to outside world, a gathering of villagers driven by Shen Mingxin made arrangements in 1972 to cut a street into the side of the mountain. They sold their domesticated animals to raise assets to purchase apparatuses and materials. 13 villagers started the task, with one biting the dust amid development. Without access to control devices, they embraced development for the most part with mallets and etches. At the most troublesome stage, the passage advanced at a rate of one meter each three days. It is 1.2 kilometers long, 5 meters tall and 4 meters wide. The burrow opened to activity on 1 May 1977. Its creation has transformed the town into a vacation spot. The territory has additionally been utilized as a film area.