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Enjoy water and the Great Wall together

This summer, there is a place where you can visit historical sites and enjoy a cool breeze at the same time...

August 03 , 2010
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China starts repairing damaged Great Wall

Repair work Saturday started on a section of the Great Wall that was intentionally damaged by a gold mining company in 2009 in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region...

June 13, 2010
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Two jailed for damaging Great Wall in north China

Two people have been jailed for intentionally damaging a section of the Great Wall in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, prosecutors said Thursday...

June 10, 2010
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Miss Bikini girls shine on Great Wall

Contestants of the 35th Miss Bikini International pose for photos at the Simatai section of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing, May 19, 2010...

  May 20, 2010
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Inner Mongolia to launch Great Wall protection project

 

China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will set hand to preserve and protect its local section of the Great Wall, the first such kind of move in the local history, said the regional government on Sunday.

Preservation and protection will go to a 2-km-long section that locates in the Beibao Village, Qingshuihe County, which was built in the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D. to 1644), government official told Xinhua.

Like any other architectural site in the world, the Great Wall is at risk of damage caused by natural and human activities. In some sections, its bricks and dirt have even been used as construction materials.

According to the official, preservers has finished field survey earlier, and the project is expected to be finished in two or three years.

The Great Wall, which was listed as the United Nations World Heritage Site in 1987, was first built in the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) to defend China against invasion by northern nomadic tribes.

The northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region owns 15,000-km-long Great Wall built in different dynasties, accounting for one third of the country's total. The section built in Ming Dynasty stretches about 1,100 km.

(Xinhua News Agency September 8, 2008)

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