For new frontiers, China is drilling 10,000-m deep into Earth's crust

为了开拓新的领域，中国正在向地壳深处钻探10000米

BEIG: Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-metre (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth's crust, as the world's second largest economy explores new frontiers above and below the planet's surface.

北京：中国科学家已经开始在地壳上钻一个10000米（32808英尺）的深井，这个世界第二大经济体正在探索地表以下的新领域。

Drilling for what is set to be China's deepest ever borehole began in the country's oil-rich X injiang region on Tuesday, according to the official X inhua news agency. Earlier that day, China sent its first civilian astronaut into space from the Gobi Desert. The narrow shaft into the ground will penetrate over 10 continental strata, or layers of rock, according to the report, and reach the cretaceous system in the Earth's crust, which features rock dating back some 145 million years.

据新华社报道，周二，中国石油资源丰富的新 疆地区开始钻探中国有史以来最深的钻孔。当天早些时候，中国将第一位民间宇航员送入太空。据报道，进入地面的狭窄竖井将穿透10多个大陆地层或岩石层，并到达地壳中的白垩纪系统，该系统的岩石可追溯到约1.45亿年前。

"The construction difficulty of the drilling project can be compared to a big truck driving on two thin steel cables," Sun insheng, a scientist at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said. China has called for greater progress in deep earth exploration. Such work can identify mineral and energy resources and help assess the risks of environmental disasters, such as earthquakes and volcano eruptions. The deepest man-made hole on Earth is still the Russian Kola Superdeep Borehole, which reached a depth of 12,262 metres in 1989, after 20 years of drilling.

中国工程院科学家说：“钻井工程的施工难度可以比作一辆大卡车在两根细钢丝绳上行驶”。中国呼吁在地球深部探测方面取得更大进展。这类工作可以确定矿产和能源资源，并有助于评估地震和火山爆发等环境灾害的风险。目前，地球上最深的人造钻孔仍然是俄罗斯的科拉超深钻孔，经过20年的钻探，该钻孔于1989年达到12262米的深度。

5月30日，位于新疆塔里木盆地的1.11万米深地塔科1井在阿克苏地区沙雅县境内的荒漠开钻，该井的正式开钻，为中国未来的科学研究和油气资源开发提供重要支持。

深地塔科1井是中国石油在塔里木油田实施“深地工程”探测的重大工程，也是中国石油工业在特深层领域探索的一个里程碑。设计钻完井周期457天。

以下是印度时报读者的评论：

karri sanjana

Bad decision… not good to play with nature

这样不好啊，不要玩弄大自然

Manju Ps

This kind of things playing with nature destroy world

这种破坏自然的行为，会破坏这个世界的

Cat india

Curiosity does not allow humans to live happy life.

好奇心，会害得人类过不上幸福的生活。

Neehar Parekh

China to new mischiefs after co

中国又要搞一个新的麻烦了

Ravindra Munvar

We all know what happened when China killed all the birds - it was followed by a Locust attack and famine. They started building huge dams and diverting water - that led to huge floods in some areas and drought in some other areas. Now this think will be something unthinkable. Only god save us all from China.

众所周知，他们消灭鸟类，随之而来的是蝗虫袭击和饥荒。他们开始建造庞大的水坝，导致了一些地区洪水泛滥，另一些地区却出现干旱。现在这是不可想象的。只有神灵才能把我们从他们手中拯救出来。

shrikant chaudhari

One more gift to the world after cor

这是又要给全世界送去一个礼物啊

Kaka

and it will come out from NY

一直挖下去，会挖到纽约的

Ve

Rahulji conveyed his appreciation and messaged 'congratulations' to china

拉胡尔对中方表示赞赏并表示祝贺

John Anthony

Nature is being destroyed in too many ways by various countries, this being another example. Such explorations will only help in destroying Nature & wipe out human civilization from this planet.

大自然正被不同的国家以各种方式进行破坏，这就是另一个例子。这样挖下去，只会破坏大自然，将人类文明从这个星球上抹去。

Grecoroman

Let's see whether it manages to fulfill the objective.

他们是否能够实现目标。让我们拭目以待

Raj

Playing with nature will back fire soon...keep on digging...your own Grave..China..

玩弄大自然，会适得其反的。继续挖下去吧。

Tarun Sayal

Has anynone seen the movie The Core

有人看过《核心》这部电影吗

Balbir

Surely they are destroying the earth and the life on it. ays are now numbered.

他们确实是在毁灭地球啊

Guest

US did it 50 years back with the Mohole project. None have heard about it since then. Cheers!

50年前，美国也搞了一个叫做莫霍尔项目。从那时起就没有人听说过类似的项目。

Balbir

Days of earth and the mankind are now numbered.

地球乃至人类的日子不多了。

Ivan Wolf

Indians in USA beware: China drill coming to your bottom

在美国的印度人要小心了：中国会从你那边挖出来的

Sundara Babu

that goes for the Americans as well

那美国人也应该小心啊

Skumar M
Too much curiosity is risky..hope they will not bring anything else/ damage the earth core to destroy all the life on earth..There should be some international governing body to stop such activities which destroys the nature and risk any life..

好奇心会害死人的。希望他们不会给地球造成破坏，不会破坏地球上的生命。我们应该有一些国际管理机构来阻止这种破坏自然和危及生命的活动。

Pas Ravi

russia drilled for 20 years is reported in the above article. I asked what was the result of Russian drilling what they hot.

文章也提到了俄罗斯钻探了20年。俄罗斯钻探到了什么？