Officials
in China are planning to turn the base where the country's
first atomic
bomb was developed into a tourist
attraction.
Approximately
six million yuan ($930,000) will be spent on the site in the
northwest Xinjiang region to develop the attraction site. According
to a report on the BBC, officials say the base in Malan will be
turned into a "red tourism site", which is chosen by the
Communist Party to celebrate important events in its history.
Tourists
will be able to take a look inside the laboratories and dormitories
scientists used, as well as a 300 metre anti-strike tunnel.
China
tested its first atomic bomb on October 16, 1964, since
then, more than 40 nuclear tests are thought to have been carried out
by the facility until 1996, the year the government said it suspended
its nuclear weapons programme
Source:ftn