China will construct the world's deepest high-speed railway station under its Great Wall.

The station will be located at Badaling, which is the most visited section of the Great Wall. The station will sit along a railway network which links the cities of Zhangjiakou and Beijing. These cities will host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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The proposed station would be situated 102 meters below the surface and will span the construction area of 36,000 square meters. These measurements make this station the deepest and largest high-speed railway station in the world.

The station will feature three floors and will have separate levels for departures and arrivals. Another record-setting characteristic of the station is its two escalators with vertical heights of 62 meters, which is the highest in the country.

Luo Duhao, chief engineer of the railway group for the Badaling section, said that careful measures would be taken to ensure that there is no damage caused to the Great Wall. For this purpose, the most advanced explosion technologies will be used for the construction of the train station.

The Badaling station is part of the still-under-construction 174-kilometer Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway network. This railway network will have a top speed of 350 kilometers per hour, cutting the commute time between the Beijing North Station and the Olympics venues in Chongli of Zhangjiakou to 50 minutes. Currently, this journey takes more than three hours.

Badaling is located 50 miles northwest of Beijing. According to the China National Tourism Administration, the site received 30,000 visitors a day during the Chinese New Year holiday week.  

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