Rugged mountains in the county of Wushan, a reclusive backwater under the jurisdiction of the southwestern municipality of Chongqing, have been flattened for a 2,600-meter runway plus an apron and a control tower of a new airport there, which literally straddles the magnificent, 1,200-meter-deep Qutang Gorge of the Yangtze River. Construction of the awe-inspiring Wushan […]