By Tracy You For Mailonline
Published: 14:56 BST, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 14:59 BST, 4 April 2019
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Engineers in a Chinese city have moved a bus terminal to a new location by pushing the entire five-storey building across the ground.
To relocate the massive 30,000-tonne structure whole, workers put hundreds of hydraulic jacks under it and laid rolling tracks for it to slide along.
The building is equivalent to four Eiffel Towers in weight and was moved in the space of 40 days to give way to bullet trains.
The Houxi Long Distance Bus Station in China was pushed forwards along railings to relocate
Hundreds of hydraulic jacks would rise and move forwards, bringing the structure along
The Houxi Long Distance Bus Station is situated in the Jimei District of Xiamen, a port city in south-eastern China's Fujian Province.
With three storeys above the ground and two underneath, the 260 million yuan (£30 million) station opened to the public in 2015 after five years of construction.
But a latest
