China: Sinkhole cluster around world’s largest FAST telescope attracts tourists
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows tourists visiting a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a natural sinkhole cluster in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows tourists visiting a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
A tourist visits a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Feb. 19, 2025. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
A tourist visits a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Feb. 19, 2025. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
Tourists visit a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Feb. 19, 2025. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
Tourists visit a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Feb. 19, 2025. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a natural sinkhole cluster in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a natural depression in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)
A panoramic drone photo taken on Feb. 19, 2025 shows a natural sinkhole cluster in Pingtang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. Over hundreds of millions of years, tectonic movements have shaped Guizhou’s karst landscape. In Pingtang County, more than 20 giant sinkholes form a spectacular sinkhole cluster.
Among them lies Dawodang, a natural depression that cradles China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope.
In recent years, the unique landscape and the FAST project have attracted a large number of tourists. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
