Satellite images have revealed that China is constructing a large wartime military complex in its capital, according to US officials, Taiwan News reported.The satellite images show a 1,500-acre construction site,

“China’s main secure command centre is in the Western Hills, north-east of the new facility, and was built decades ago at the height of the Cold War,” the former official said. “The size, scale and partially buried characteristics of the new facility suggest it will replace the Western Hills complex as the primary wartime command facility.

China’s military is building a massive complex in western Beijing that US intelligence believes will serve as a wartime command centre far larger than the Pentagon, according to current and former American officials.

China is likely constructing a vast military command center in the western part of Beijing, which will be much larger than the Pentagon, Financial Times (FT) reports. Satellite images, analyzed by US intelligence,

China is constructing the world's largest military command centre near Beijing, in a bid to safeguard the country's leaders in the event of a nuclear conflict, US intelligence officials have said. The facility, about 20 miles south-west of the Chinese capital, covers 1,500 acres and is set to be 10 times the size of the Pentagon.