Explore Asia's longest cave in China

According to the results of the 2023 joint expedition, the Shuanghe Cave in China is 409.9 km long, the longest cave in Asia and the 3rd longest in the world .

Shuanghe Cave in Guizhou, China, was once a habitat for giant pandas. (Source: VCG)

Scientists from China, France, Portugal, Belgium and many other countries gathered at Shuanghe Cave - known as the longest cave in Asia, in Guizhou Province, Southwest China, to attend the announcement ceremony of the 23rd international scientific expedition.

The Shuanghe Cave expedition is scheduled to take place from October 7 to 24, with scientists expected to announce the results on October 24. Previous scientific expeditions have found 44 individual giant panda fossils, with the oldest specimen dating back 100,000 years and the most recent dating back several hundred years.

Fossils prove that Guizhou was once a habitat for giant pandas - which now live in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

Over the past 30 years, Shuanghe Cave has undergone dozens of studies by explorers and experts from inside and outside China. (Source: VCG)

According to the results of the 2023 joint expedition, Shuanghe Cave is 409.9 km long, the longest cave in Asia and the third longest in the world. It is also the longest dolomite (a type of carbonate sedimentary rock) cave in the world.

French cave explorer Jean Bottazzi, who has more than 30 years of experience exploring caves in China, will head the upcoming research team.

Since the late 1980s, Chinese and foreign experts have continuously updated the length of Shuanghe Cave, discovered and excavated many fossils and living creatures, providing rich and valuable scientific research materials, said Mr. Bottazzi.

According to Zhou Wenlong, Deputy Secretary General of the Guizhou Cave Association, the upcoming cave expedition will further study the cave's resources, formation and evolution.

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