{"id":143925,"date":"2026-01-11T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143925"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:00:11","slug":"how-china-turned-a-mega-project-failure-into-a-defining-moment-in-modern-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143925","title":{"rendered":"How China turned a mega-project failure into a defining moment in modern engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has pulled off a daring underground feat, using a multimillion-dollar tunnel boring machine (TBM) to recover its stranded twin beneath the country\u2019s largest river.<br \/>\nThe rendezvous between the TBMs was achieved with just 2mm (0.078 inch) of vertical error and no horizontal deviation under the Yangtze\u2019s riverbed, setting a benchmark for precision in deep underground engineering, according to state media on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe feat saved a megaproject that might otherwise have been scrapped.<br \/>\nIn&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3339450\/how-china-turned-mega-project-failure-defining-moment-modern-engineering?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has pulled off a daring underground feat, using a multimillion-dollar tunnel boring machine (TBM) to recover its stranded twin beneath the country\u2019s largest&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}