Forget digging a hole to China — now China’s the one digging the really deep holes. The Asian nation has begun drilling a more than 32,800-foot-deep hole into the Earth’s crust as part of a so-called research project in the nation’s oil-rich Xinjiang region, according to state media. The venture is being led by state scientists as a means to further China’s deep Earth exploration venture launched by President Xi Jinping in 2021, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The digging of China’s deepest ever hole began on Tuesday in the Tarim Basin, near the nation’s Tarim Oilfield. Sun Jinsheng, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forget digging a hole to China — now China’s the one digging the really deep holes. The Asian nation has begun drilling a more than 32,800-foot-deep hole into the Earth’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}