China will build the largest railway station in the world

China will be built an unique railway station, the deepest and largest in the world intended for high-speed trains. The construction work of this railway station will be completed at the end of 2019, as part of its preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics, state media reported on Thursday.

It will be built in a suburb of Beijing, near the Great Wall. According to the news agency RIA Novosti, citing Chinese media, the station will be built next to Badaling, a portion of the Great Wall of China, which is the most visited by tourists, located 75 km northwest of the capital of China, thus becoming part of the section Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway, which will be widely used during the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in China.

As stated by the China Railway Group Limited Company CEO, Zhao Guangfa, the railway station will be built at a depth of 102 meters underground and the construction area will cover 35,000 square meters, "the equivalent of five football fields."

"The Badaling station will be located 102 meters (335 feet) below the surface, with an underground construction area of 36,000 square meters (387,501 sq feet), equal to five standard soccer fields, making it the deepest and largest high-speed railway station in the world," Chen Bin, director in charge of construction for China Railway No 5 Engineering Group, told the People's Daily newspaper.

Badaling is considered to be “the most challenging” of the 10 stations to be built due to the mountainous landscape and vulnerable environment surrounding the area. “It will run through mountains where the Great Wall is winding, so we adopted some of the world's advanced explosion technologies to guarantee it would not affect the Great Wall," said Luo Duhao, chief engineer of the railway group for the Badaling section.