2000 Meters! China is building an underwater space station nearly 10,000 feet below the surface

It’s like a space under the sea. China plans to build a huge sea lab 2,000 meters below the surface of the South China Sea, and it is the Longgong-1 deep-sea space station. This project is part of China’s thirteenth five-year economic plan, and it is ranked two in the country’s top 100 science and technology priorities. Well, people living on the earth are no strangers to the space station, but few people know that in the most widely distributed ocean on the earth, human beings have already started to build a “deep sea space station“. Looking at the world, in addition to traditional ocean powers such as the United States and Russia, European countries such as Norway and the Netherlands are also carrying out research on deep-sea workstations for the development of deep-sea oil, gas and mineral resources. The call from the depths of the sea attracted more and more responders. So, what is China’s Longgong-1 deep-sea space station? Why do humans want to expl