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Living Underground in Beijing

Living Underground in Beijing

Stuff You Should Know

October 20, 201630m 41s

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Show Notes

Chairman Mao’s paranoia of a Soviet invasion led to hundreds of thousands of Beijing residents put to work for a decade building an 85-square-km underground city to serve as a massive bomb shelter. Instead it’s illegal underground housing today.

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