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Hunan turning mine pit into ice resort

Xinhua, January 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

A deserted mine pit in central China's Hunan Province is being turned into an "ice theme park" featuring skiing, ice skating and water rides.

More than five decades of mining by a local cement producer left a pit 100 meters deep and measuring 180,000 square meters at the surface in the provincial capital Changsha.

Turning the bowl-shaped industrial wasteland into a tourist destination is challenging. Given the depth of the pit, construction workers have to use a tunnel to get concrete to the bottom.

The theme park is expected to open in 2018, according to the local government. Endi