Underground bunker in Shanghai can house 200,000 people

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Underground bunker in China can house 200,000 people

By IANS
Sunday July 30, 05:49 PM
Beijing, July 30 (Xinhua) China's economic hub Shanghai has built an underground bunker that can accommodate 200,000 people in an emergency to evade blasts, poisonous gas emission and nuclear radiation, according to a local media report.
The bunker covers a total area of more than 90,000 square metres. It has 15 passages nearly 4,000 metres in length each to link the underground space with ground buildings and facilities, including office towers and residential departments, the Shanghai Morning Post reported on Saturday.
Once an inlet or exit is blocked, the people hiding in the underground bunker can choose any other one to go in or out.
Besides, the bunker is connected with subways, which can help people flee from one district to other districts in Shanghai, the report said.
The people in the bunker may avoid the harm brought by disasters taking place on the ground, such as blasts, poisonous gas emission and nuclear radiation, the report said quoting an official of the Civil Defence Office as saying.
Water, power and ventilation systems in the bunker are capable of supporting people to hide for seven to 15 days in safety, the official said.
In peaceful times, some parts of the bunker can be used as garages, warehouses or commercial facilities, the official said.
Shanghai, the economic hub and financial centre of China, has now a population of about 17.78 million with a city area of about 5,155 square km.

That's a big bunker. However, in a city like Shanghai, I wonder how may people are going to be lined up waiting to get in. If everyone in Shanghai wants protection, that's still not going to be big enough. It's better to give every couple of blocks it's own smaller shelter.

At least it doesn't have a palace in it like Saddams.

Well, well ..., was that thing a known unknown or a unknown unknown for Don Rumsfeld ???

After all the structure is only a civil shelter facility albeit of a massive scale. The probabilty that military bunker systems which have been built under Chinas´s megacities in the last decade are of even more advanced capability seems to be very high. May be the whole PLA, PAP and the leading echelons of the CPC (plus some business and tech-people) can vanish underground in an emergency.

Some question to our mainland experts: Do you have some civil defence education at college/university ? (Thanks in advance!)

Underground bunkers are worthless IMO. Try getting 200,000 people sheltered in 10 minutes or less. And this assumes you have an effective Early Warning system. The USA and Russia both built these in the Cold War, before both had SSBN's roaming eachother's coasts. Russia apparently has a few in Moscow for continuity of government reasons. The USA has these for the same reasons currently. But close proximity SSBN's largely rendered shelters obsolete for the general population. It's a shame as they are largely innocent bystanders in the whole mess.

Finn McCool said:

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That's a big bunker. However, in a city like Shanghai, I wonder how may people are going to be lined up waiting to get in. If everyone in Shanghai wants protection, that's still not going to be big enough. It's better to give every couple of blocks it's own smaller shelter.

At least it doesn't have a palace in it like Saddams.

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Most Chinese cities have bunkers from WWII although they are really just tunnels dug in the ground with spider webs and other creepy bugs in them now

I remember hearing about how The Russians, Germans and British during WW2 would send people down into the Subway Tunnels. Stalin in particular actualy made his Subway Tunnels several meeters further down into the ground than a standard Subway in order to sheild it and whoever was inside. Of course, this was before modern nuclear weapons.

I imagine this being something like an emergency shelter, like the ones they have in America for Hurricanes and Tornado victims, but just underground. Very intresting.