Guardians of the Great Wall strive to protect it
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Guardians of the Great Wall strive to protect it

China Daily  

Even at 80, Mei Jingtian continues to patrol the Shixiaguan section of the Great Wall. Mei lives in Shixia, a village nestled near the 8.6-kilometer stretch of the Shixiaguan section of the Great Wall in the suburban Yanqing district of Beijing, the oldest part of which dates back to the Northern Qi Dynasty. Inspired by her uncle, Mei's niece Liu Hongyan, followed in his footsteps and officially became a Great Wall guardian in 2019. "When I was a child, my uncle always told me his patrol stories and talked about the history of the Great Wall," Liu says. "It is my biggest wish to see heritage well-preserved and available to visit, encouraging more people to join us in protecting the Great Wall," Mei says.

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Great Wall development to get 100m yuan
3 months ago

Great Wall development to get 100m yuan

China Daily  

Guardians Another protective measure is to appoint Great Wall guardians in towns and villages across the six districts of the world heritage site. Over the years, the Badaling Great Wall scenic area has welcomed a total of 200 million visits worldwide. Looking ahead, the Yanqing government has unveiled plans to connect the Great Wall scenic areas, natural scenic spots, Great …

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets
3 months ago

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets

China Daily  

Clouds seem to run like a river beneath the Jiankou Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has attached great importance to tapping into the cultural value of the Great Wall and the conservation of its cultural relics, and has given multiple important instructions on advancing the construction of the Great Wall …

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets
3 months ago

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets

China Daily  

Clouds seem to run like a river beneath the Jiankou Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has attached great importance to tapping into the cultural value of the Great Wall and the conservation of its cultural relics, and has given multiple important instructions on advancing the construction of the Great Wall …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

By Yang Feiyue Yanmen Pass is a majestic view in winter. "There's a watchtower that has a carved floral pattern dating back to the Ming Dynasty and you can also find a stone tablet that bears traffic instructions," Yang says about the distinctive features of the Yanmen Pass in Xinzhou, an important point of the Great Wall that runs more …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Yanmen Pass is a majestic view in winter. He speaks fast, sometimes even tripping over his words as if trying to cram as much information about the Great Wall as he can in a limited time to an audience during the opening ceremony in early July of a Great Wall-themed tourist program in Daixian county, Xinzhou city, Shanxi province. "There's …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

More than 200 photos by Yang are on display at a travel promotion event in the city. To continuously improve the ecological environment of the Yanmen Pass scenic area and the surrounding Great Wall, Daixian county has implemented afforestation projects in a mountainous area of more than 2,600 hectares in recent years, where pine, spruce, wild apricot and elm trees …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Yang Junfeng stands before Pingxingguan, a Great Wall pass, in 2017. Yang took a train in 1991 to Jiayuguan, a well-known pass at the western end of the Great Wall dating back to the Ming Dynasty in northwestern China's Gansu province. Yang remembers how Gao held out his business card and told him that Shanxi possesses many Great Wall resources. …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Yanmen Pass is a majestic view in winter. He speaks fast, sometimes even tripping over his words as if trying to cram as much information about the Great Wall as he can in a limited time to an audience during the opening ceremony in early July of a Great Wall-themed tourist program in Daixian county, Xinzhou city, Shanxi province. "There's …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Yanmen Pass is a majestic view in winter. He speaks fast, sometimes even tripping over his words as if trying to cram as much information about the Great Wall as he can in a limited time to an audience during the opening ceremony in early July of a Great Wall-themed tourist program in Daixian county, Xinzhou city, Shanxi province. "There's …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

More than 200 photos by Yang are on display at a travel promotion event in the city. To continuously improve the ecological environment of the Yanmen Pass scenic area and the surrounding Great Wall, Daixian county has implemented afforestation projects in a mountainous area of more than 2,600 hectares in recent years, where pine, spruce, wild apricot and elm trees …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Yanmen Pass is a majestic view in winter. He speaks fast, sometimes even tripping over his words as if trying to cram as much information about the Great Wall as he can in a limited time to an audience during the opening ceremony in early July of a Great Wall-themed tourist program in Daixian county, Xinzhou city, Shanxi province. "There's …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

A section of the Wall runs across the green mountains in Xinzhou, Shanxi province. YANG JUNFENG/FOR CHINA DAILY Additionally, many sections of the Wall and fortresses are located in sparsely populated mountainous areas, where villages are generally poor. After the Great Wall lost its military defense function, the impoverished villagers living nearby used its materials to build houses, causing significant …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Winter view of the Yezhukou section of the Wall in Xinzhou. YANG JUNFENG/FOR CHINA DAILY Positive changes The Great Wall section in Xinzhou boasts rich cultural heritage and sizable sections that stretch the area, making its protection challenging, Yang notes. "I had just finished writing about the culture of counties along the Yellow River and Yang informed me of the …

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall
5 months, 1 week ago

Award-winning protector still passionate for Great Wall

China Daily  

Winter view of the Yezhukou section of the Wall in Xinzhou. YANG JUNFENG/FOR CHINA DAILY Positive changes The Great Wall section in Xinzhou boasts rich cultural heritage and sizable sections that stretch the area, making its protection challenging, Yang notes. "I had just finished writing about the culture of counties along the Yellow River and Yang informed me of the …

Great Wall funding drive success marked
5 months, 1 week ago

Great Wall funding drive success marked

China Daily  

Pingxingguan pass, a renovated section of the Great Wall, originally built in 1511 in Datong, Shanxi province. Four decades ago, Beijing Daily, the Beijing Evening News, the former Badaling Great Wall special zone administrative office, among other organizations, launched a campaign, under the slogan of "Love China, Restore the Great Wall". Su Wenyang, the initiator of the Great Wall preservation …

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets
6 months, 1 week ago

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets

China Daily  

Clouds seem to run like a river beneath the Jiankou Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has attached great importance to tapping into the cultural value of the Great Wall and the conservation of its cultural relics, and has given multiple important instructions on advancing the construction of the Great Wall …

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets
6 months, 1 week ago

Great Wall restoration teams uncover trove of secrets

China Daily  

Clouds seem to run like a river beneath the Jiankou Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, Xi has attached great importance to tapping into the cultural value of the Great Wall and the conservation of its cultural relics, and has given multiple important instructions on advancing the construction of the Great Wall …

Great Wall restoration kicks off in Beijing
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Great Wall restoration kicks off in Beijing

China Daily  

Launch ceremony is held in Beijing for a new round of restoration of the Jiankou Great Wall. Commencing on June 6, a fresh phase of restoration for the Jiankou Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district has been initiated, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing conservation efforts of this historical marvel. Deng Chao, the director of the artifact and historical …

Related publication: Where is the Great Wall
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Related publication: Where is the Great Wall

China Daily  

Where is the Great Wall by Dong Yaohui, published by CITIC Publishing Group. The book Where is the Great Wall explains, from a macro geographical perspective, the reasons why the Chinese people have been building the Great Wall for two thousand years. Covering regions such as the Northeast Plain, North China Plain, Loess Plateau, Inner Mongolia Plateau, Hetao Plain, Hexi …

Great Wall guardian
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Great Wall guardian

China Daily  

A view of the Great Wall's Jiankou section that runs on top of the green mountain ridges in Huairou district. "It's a force of habit," says Cheng, who's in his 60s and has been repairing and maintaining the Great Wall's Jiankou section in Huairou for nearly two decades. Jiankou is widely considered one of the most dangerous parts of the …

Great Wall guardian
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Great Wall guardian

China Daily  

A view of the Great Wall's Jiankou section that runs on top of the green mountain ridges in Huairou district. "It's a force of habit," says Cheng, who's in his 60s and has been repairing and maintaining the Great Wall's Jiankou section in Huairou for nearly two decades. Jiankou is widely considered one of the most dangerous parts of the …

Man's efforts to protect Great Wall paying off
1 year, 1 month ago

Man's efforts to protect Great Wall paying off

China Daily  

Yuan Xuerui collects garbage during his patrol of the Great Wall in Daixian county, Shanxi province. From voluntarily collecting historical materials related to the section of the Great Wall in his Shanxi province hometown to becoming an official cultural heritage protector, Yuan Xuerui has spent over two decades safeguarding the ancient fortification. He officially became a cultural heritage worker in …

Guardians of the Great Wall
1 year, 4 months ago

Guardians of the Great Wall

China Daily  

Visitors at the ruins of a beacon tower of the Han Dynasty Great Wall in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Deep in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, remnants of the Han Dynasty Great Wall stand firm. A family's perseverance The city of Dunhuang — sitting at the west end of the Hexi Corridor, the main artery of the ancient …

Guardians of the Great Wall
1 year, 4 months ago

Guardians of the Great Wall

China Daily  

Visitors at the ruins of a beacon tower of the Han Dynasty Great Wall in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Deep in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, remnants of the Han Dynasty Great Wall stand firm. A family's perseverance The city of Dunhuang — sitting at the west end of the Hexi Corridor, the main artery of the ancient …

Guardians of the Great Wall
1 year, 4 months ago

Guardians of the Great Wall

China Daily  

The Site of Yumen Pass was included on UNESCO's World Heritage List, as part of the "Silk Roads: The Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor", in 2014. These earthen relics account for around one-third of the country's 767,000 immovable cultural relics, says Wang Yanwu, director of the relics preservation research department of the Conservation Institute, Dunhuang Academy. Unlike Zhang Chunsheng's team …

Guardians of the Great Wall
1 year, 4 months ago

Guardians of the Great Wall

China Daily  

Visitors at the ruins of a beacon tower of the Han Dynasty Great Wall in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Deep in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, remnants of the Han Dynasty Great Wall stand firm. A family's perseverance The city of Dunhuang — sitting at the west end of the Hexi Corridor, the main artery of the ancient …

Great Wall dig unearths Ming Dynasty soldiers' conditions
2 years, 3 months ago

Great Wall dig unearths Ming Dynasty soldiers' conditions

China Daily  

The Jiankou section of the Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district can be risky for hikers. "We speculate that Ming Dynasty scouts could conduct reconnaissance through this secret pass under the Great Wall to observe the enemy's situation," Shang says. "In the past, when damage was found on the Great Wall, the authorities immediately sent workers to repair it, during …

Great Wall dig unearths Ming Dynasty soldiers' conditions
2 years, 3 months ago

Great Wall dig unearths Ming Dynasty soldiers' conditions

China Daily  

The Jiankou section of the Great Wall in Beijing's Huairou district can be risky for hikers. "We speculate that Ming Dynasty scouts could conduct reconnaissance through this secret pass under the Great Wall to observe the enemy's situation," Shang says. "In the past, when damage was found on the Great Wall, the authorities immediately sent workers to repair it, during …

Museum face-lift to offer new perspective of Great Wall
2 years, 5 months ago

Museum face-lift to offer new perspective of Great Wall

China Daily  

Staff members from the China Great Wall Museum pack exhibits before the start of renovation work. HAN JIE/FOR CHINA DAILY Long history Among the projects scheduled for the museum upgrading, the most compelling is an exhibition of the Great Wall's history. Dong Yaohui, deputy chairman of the China Great Wall Association, said, "Historically, the Great Wall prevented the number and …

Museum face-lift to offer new perspective of Great Wall
2 years, 5 months ago

Museum face-lift to offer new perspective of Great Wall

China Daily  

Staff members from the China Great Wall Museum pack exhibits before the start of renovation work. HAN JIE/FOR CHINA DAILY Long history Among the projects scheduled for the museum upgrading, the most compelling is an exhibition of the Great Wall's history. Dong Yaohui, deputy chairman of the China Great Wall Association, said, "Historically, the Great Wall prevented the number and …

Museum face-lift to offer new perspective of Great Wall
2 years, 5 months ago

Museum face-lift to offer new perspective of Great Wall

China Daily  

Staff members from the China Great Wall Museum pack exhibits before the start of renovation work. HAN JIE/FOR CHINA DAILY Long history Among the projects scheduled for the museum upgrading, the most compelling is an exhibition of the Great Wall's history. Dong Yaohui, deputy chairman of the China Great Wall Association, said, "Historically, the Great Wall prevented the number and …

China's Ningxia enacts regulation to protect Great Wall
3 years ago

China's Ningxia enacts regulation to protect Great Wall

China Daily  

Regarded as the largest and greatest fortification system in China's history, the Great Wall was built across the country during different dynasties to protect its territories and resist invasion from various nomadic groups. The local legislature in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region has passed a regulation to protect the Great Wall in the region. According to the regulation passed …

Passing the baton of Great Wall protection
4 years ago

Passing the baton of Great Wall protection

China Daily  

Night view of the Shanhai Pass, which is located at the eastern terminal of the Great Wall, in the city of Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei province, October 11, 2009. One time, Zhang found several men using metal detectors to search for "treasure" on the Great Wall, unearthing some ancient firearms. Over the years, China has put ever greater effort into …

Passing the baton of Great Wall protection
4 years ago

Passing the baton of Great Wall protection

China Daily  

Night view of the Shanhai Pass, which is located at the eastern terminal of the Great Wall, in the city of Qinhuangdao, North China's Hebei province, October 11, 2009. One time, Zhang found several men using metal detectors to search for "treasure" on the Great Wall, unearthing some ancient firearms. Over the years, China has put ever greater effort into …

NW China province steps up efforts to protect Great Wall
4 years, 1 month ago

NW China province steps up efforts to protect Great Wall

China Daily  

Jiayuguan Pass, located 6 km southwest of Jiayuguan in Gansu, makes up the Great Wall's western end, which stretches to the eastern end at Shanhaiguan Pass on the shores of North China's Bohai Bay. Northwest China's Gansu province will initiate a conservation plan for the Great Wall, according to the Gansu Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage. "The conservation plan has …

Jiankou: China’s remote and dangerous Great Wall
4 years, 4 months ago

Jiankou: China’s remote and dangerous Great Wall

BBC  

Jiankou: China’s remote and dangerous Great Wall Amanda Ruggeri Until recently, there was no restoration on the Jiankou section of China's Great Wall While a remote part of the Great Wall may soon attract more visitors, it remains a striking reminder of the centuries that shaped not only the fortification, but China itself. “Every year, maybe one or two people …

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