Secret Chinese wartime factory to open as resort - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) China is to create a tourist resort in a giant cave used by the former Nationalist government as a secret aircraft factory during World War II, the official Xinhua news agency said. The Haikong cave, in verdant mountains near the south-western city and wartime capital of Chongqing, will cost about $78 million to develop, the report said. The cave is "an ideal place for conferences and leisure travel", it said, citing the local investment bureau's website. "The enshrouded cave is 50 metres high and as spacious as a giant conference hall," Xinhua added. "The tourist bureau said that the manufacturing plant could be developed into a loft art workshop." The plant was deserted in 1949, the report said, after the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after losing a brutal civil war with the Communists.
I wonder what they produced there. During the war against the Japanese China tried to build their own Hawk 75's and Curtiss-Wright Model 21's, neither very successfully. But this sounds like a Civil War facility.
