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Fuzhou residents beat the heat in wartime air-raid tunnel

By Hu Meidong and Zhang Yi in Fuzhou | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2026-07-21 10:53

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Visitors brew tea and rest inside the Wushan Mountain air defense tunnel in Fuzhou, Fujian province, to escape the summer heatwave. [Photo by Chi Yuan/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Residents in Fuzhou, Fujian province, are using a former wartime air-raid shelter to escape summer temperatures that regularly exceed 37 C.

The 570-meter-long civil air defense tunnel in Wushan Mountain, constructed in the 1970s, maintains a constant temperature of 18 C to 20 C due to its deep rock insulation.

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