- China's largest city and the communist giant's gleaming
business hub, Shanghai has decided to build a 60,000-square-metre multipurpose
'underground city'.
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- The multi-level 'underground city', four-storeyed in
some places, will be equipped with stores, garages, restaurants and all
kinds of entertainment centres and facilities, a Shanghai-based newspaper
said.
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- It is scheduled to be completed in 2006 and has been
listed as a major scientific and technological programme by the Shanghai
municipality, the Jiefang Daily reported.
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- The construction of the 'underground city' will comprehensively
utilise the underground room of and around the existing subway pivots as
well as their ground facilities.
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- The reports quoting experts from the Shanghai municipal
government said due to lesser and lesser ground space in big cities, city
dwellers have now begun to favour underground stores and garages.
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- They also said that they will build a sound ventilation
system in the 'underground city' and introduce sunlight to build a greenbelt
system in places where conditions permit.
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- Shanghai is China's largest city with a population of
over 17 million.
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