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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...

July 06, 2011
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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...

  May 05, 2011
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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...

March 22, 2011
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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...

March 14, 2011
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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, after a two-year archaeological expedition in the northwestern province.

Ren Xiaoyan, deputy chief of Qinghai Archaeological Research Institute, said the investigation over the 360 kilometer-long Great Wall in Ming Dynasty started in 2009 in 24 cities and counties in the province except two Tibetan Autonomous prefectures, Yushu and Guoluo. The statistics show that the investigation found one wall body, 51 beacon towers and 158 border campsites.

The newly-found reliecs were initially built in Qin and Han dynasties and finished in the late Qing Dynasty. Most parts of the relics are worn by the time and weather, hardly to be discerned.

(Global Times, March 22, 2011)

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