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New deal for commercial flights over the Great Wall
Sightseers can rise above the crowds and get a bird's eye view of the Badaling section by taking a spin with Capital Helicopter on a single-engine, six-seat AS350B3 Squirrel helicopter. Tours start at Badaling Airport and last about 15 minutes...
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Great Wall forests scorched in blaze
Police are investigating after a blaze close to the iconic Great Wall destroyed 33 hectares of forest and fruit plantations...
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Qinghai finds Great Wall remains
Archaeologists found in Qinghai Province new Great Wall relics, including the wall's body, beacon towers, so on in the recently-finished Great Wall Resource Examination...
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Great Wall, Hutong listed in the must-see places in the world
On March 8, Reuters listed 25 places in the world to see before they change forever, where the "Real" Great Wall of China and Beijing's Hutong Communities are on the list...
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North China to erect Great Wall protection signs
North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region will erect signs to protect sections of the Great Wall in the region, some of which are not widely known to be part of it.
According to a 2007 survey, nearly 90 percent of people in Inner Mongolia did not know that the Great Wall ran through the region, as they considered some 3-meter-tall adobe walls as "yard walls" rather than the Great Wall.
Each sign will specify the dynasty, year and length of a particular section of the Great Wall, and confirm it as protected, said Wang Dafang, an official with the cultural relics section of the region's Department of Culture.
The regional government signed warrants with the cultural bureaus of cities in the region Tuesday, requiring their commitments for the protection of the Great Wall, Wang said.
Cities in the region are preparing reports for the region's government about the Great Wall under their jurisdiction, and the region will allocate special funds to put up protection signs based on the reports.
The installation of the signs is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
The Great Wall, which was listed as a United Nations World Heritage Site in 1987, was first built in the Warring States Period (475 B.C.-221 B.C.) to defend China against invasion by northern nomadic tribes.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's 15,000-km piece of the Great Wall was built during different dynasties, accounting for one third of the country's total.
In 2009, two men from a mining company were jailed for drilling holes through a section of the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C.- 206 B.C.) Great Wall in Inner Mongolia. A similar case also happened in 2008 for damaging a section of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Great Wall using heavy machinery also in the region.
"Protection signs will help those residents realize the existence of the Great Wall and avoid unintentional damages," Wang said.
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