The borehole will penetrate more than 10 continental strata as it goes deeper and deeper into the Earth's surface.
China is drilling a hole in the desert more than 11,000m deep in order to study areas deep beneath the planet's surface.
The operation - reported in state media - started on Tuesday and is located in the Xinjiang region in northwestWith a planned depth of 11,100 metres, the borehole is certainly no shallow effort but falls short of the deepest ever man-made hole. The current record has been held since 1979 by the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a Soviet project located near the Russian border with Norway, with a depth of 12,262m .
"The construction difficulty of the drilling project can be compared to a big truck driving on two thin steel cables," state media reported academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Sun Jinsheng, as saying.
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