Explained: Why is China drilling its deepest-ever hole into

China has started drilling over a 10,000-metre (10 km) hole into the Earth’s crust for exploring the unknown territory of the planet. Heavy equipment, weighing 2,000-tonne, will dig the country’s possibly deepest-ever borehole in the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang region

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