China's Atlantis
How the Lion City was purposely-flooded to make way for a power station but remains completely intact 130ft underwater after 50 years
- Shi Cheng was once centre of politics and economics in eastern province of Zhejiang
- Covered in water to build hydroelectric power station in 1959 and was forgotten
- Now divers want to use the metropolis as a tourist site and have gone to plan routes
A maze of white temples, memorial arches, paved roads, and houses... hidden 130 feet underwater: this is China's real-life Atlantis.
The so-called Lion City, tucked in a lake between the Five Lion Mountain, was once Shi Cheng - the centre of politics and economics in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
But in 1959, the Chinese government decided a new hydroelectric power station was required - so built a man-made lake.
source dailymail.co.uk
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