China to open Atomic bomb test base for tourists

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (APP):  China has planned to give the public access  to a deserted nuclear experiment site where scientists worked day  and night more than half a century ago to develop the country’s  first atomic bomb. About 6 million yuan (944,882 U.S. dollars) will be invested to turn the Malan Base in the remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region into a “red tourism” site, a local official said on Monday. The project is being undertaken by the local government and Beijing-based Tsinghua University. Labs and dormitories used by the nuclear scientists, as well as a 300-meter anti-air strike tunnel, will be preserved, said Arken Haasmoo, an official with  Bayinggolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, which has jurisdiction over Malan.

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