A heavy-duty baozi steamer? Time machine for dwarves? Hu Jintao’s personal Palantír? None of the above.

It is the JBG series spherical anti-bomb storage tank. For about a month now, every subway station in Beijing has been equipped with a JBG bomb storage tank. Not only can they withstand a blast of 1.5kg of TNT, they are also portable and reusable.

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(in Chinese) Xi’an Rui Bao Co.