Mayan apocalypse: Chinese farmer builds survival pods in case of a disaster Liu Qiyuan, a farmer from the village of Qiantun, Hebei province, south of Beijing, poses among some of the survival pods that he has designed and built. He hopes that his creations, consisting of a fibreglass shell around a steel frame, will be adopted by government departments and international organisations for use in the event of tsunamis and earthquakes. Picture: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images