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Saturday, January 30, 2016

China's Great Wall Is Crumbling In Many Places. Can It Be Saved?

After centuries of neglect, the world's largest fortification – the Great Wall of China – has a band of modern-day defenders who are drawing up plans to protect and maintain the vast structure.

They're not a minute too soon: roughly a third of the wall's 12,000 miles has crumbled to dust, and saving what's left of it may be the world's greatest challenge in cultural preservation.

Qiao Guohua is on the front line of this battle. He lives in the village of Jielingkou, not far from where the eastern end of the Great Wall runs into the Yellow Sea.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a good idea , let's get Obama to donate a few billion to make repairs while our streets , bridges and infrastructure fall apart , while we have white and black children starving in rural areas of West Virginia and mountainous regions. Of course this will put several Chinese boys and girls to work under communist rule and hard labor. Just a thought!

Anonymous said...

they can handle it. it's their wall.
they have sufficient workers!

Anonymous said...

Donald can fix it