600-years-old Taoism temple gets a face lift

In China's Hubei Province, where a 600-years-old Taoism architecture, Yuzhen Palace, at Wudang Mountains is getting a 15-meter lift up. This is to stop the site being flooded by rising waters of the Danjiangkou reservoir. Momentous as the task may be, it is now nearing completion.

All this would soon have been underwater if it were not for the project to lift it to higher grounds. But nothing on this scale has ever done before. The highest lift that a similar structure had was 4 meters. And the fact that it's a precious historical monument makes it all the more difficult. The palace walls have become fragile over the years and water has seeped into the soil underneath.
Despite what seems to be the impossible, workers here are just a breath away from the required height, 13 centimetres to be precise. But there's still more work to be done.

Li Xuguang, architect, said, "After we finish lifting the palace, we will build support walls for the palace gates and a platform that it can rest on. It will be done in around April."

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