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LOL, they want to attack CPC from inside. Just like what they did with Syria. So now they want to dig something, like legitimacy.
I am skeptical. Why would anyone build bunkers for your top commanders in such an open flat field under the watchful eyes of adversaries in orbit? And the site is dangerously close to the Qinglonghu reservoir, also a popular tourist destination.
Just a few kilometres to the west, you would be in the Yanshan mountain where you can bore tunnels as bunkers under the granite bedrocks as thick as a hundred meters.
Just to give an idea on how absolutely massive the site at Qinglonghu is, which is more than 4 kilometers across at its widest extent.
Satellite photos posted by @foolsball on Twitter.
There is no adversary that can hit that site excepting mass nuclear strike anyways.
Underground tunnels serve more to let organizers and commanders move about and having meetings unseen by crowds above ground. It's a lot harder to get a spy into a deep underground compound with just a few ways in and out, compared to a normal above ground mansion. To coordinate global scale operations, you want the secrecy and the concentrated infrastructure.
That it's close to a tourist area shouldn't matter if it's a pentagon style building. Taking photos of the outside is fine.
According to @foolsball, should the nuclear bunker structures present at the Qinglonghu complex (if this is the actual case here) be well designed & built and are situated deep enough underground, the bunker structures should be capable of withstanding nuclear blast directly above (but not right on top of) the structures (i.e. surface detonation).
Besides, the spread-out nature of the complex means that multiple large-yield warheads would be needed to ensure a complete kill on literally everyone that are spread across the complex.
(The prompts that I've obtained from Deepseek suggested similar values, i.e. at least ~100 meters below ground).
In the meantime, some have suggested that the Qinglonghu complex is actually and basically a joint office site being built for the PLA as part of the capital's decentralization plan, which is similar to how Beijing's municipal government is being moved to Tongzhou since 2015. Once completed, it is stipulated that the CMC and the HQs of various PLA services & arms will be relocated there from the Beijing city center.
Simply put, the Qinglonghu complex should be seen as a relocation of the PLA Command HQ. The wartime command center of the PLA remains situated somewhere underground in the Xishan/Western Hills (西山) mountain ranges west of Beijing.
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That makes a lot more sense. Basically the admin functions of a very large military at this new site whilst the operational (esp. nuclear) functions are in super-hardened facilities under mountains.
Also consider that not all wars are at the level of approaching nuclear annihilation. There will surely be military operations in the future that aren't directly directed at another major power (the US)