There is not much man-made damage, but natural damage still occurs from time to time.” “Damage to the Great Wall caused by people is basically contained. However, such incidents had become rare in recent years, Mr. In the same year and province, farmers tore down more than 3,200 feet of the wall, collected the bricks and sold them to build roads. In 2002, a villager of Hebei province built a urinal on the Great Wall and removed bricks from it to make a hole for defecation. Vandalism of the site has continued well into the 21st century, with China’s state media reporting that local residents living near the wall have built numerous private shrines on it, dug holes into it to use for storage, and used the wall as part of their garden fences or sheep pens. But success has been mixed, and challenges to preserving the wall have mounted.
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In 1984, responding to threats to its preservation, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping opened a campaign to restore the wall, declaring, “Love China, repair the Great Wall.” Subsequent governments have created national legislation to protect the wall and attempted to crack down on vandals. They would tear down the wall directly,” he said, “and use it for anything.”
“At that time, people didn’t think it was a big deal. In the 1950s and 1960s, parts of the wall were regularly torn down and repurposed for construction materials, according to Dong Yaohui, the vice president of the Great Wall Society of China. The Great Wall has long faced the dual threats of erosion and human activity, with locals stealing bricks to use as construction materials or to sell, and in more recent times, tourists etching carvings into the stone. In 1987, the wall was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. The most well-preserved section is around 5,500 miles long.
The Great Wall, which served as a fortress protecting the territory from invasions under successive Chinese empires, spans more than 13,000 miles. They have been charged with destroying a cultural relic, according to China Daily, a state-owned media outlet. The man, named in the release as Zheng, and the woman, named as Wang, are from the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in the country’s north and were taken in for investigation, the bureau added. Law enforcement officers rushed to the scene to find that a piece of the wall, believed to have been constructed during the Ming dynasty between the 14th and 17th centuries, had been severely “excavated and damaged by large-scale machinery,” the bureau said. The security bureau said it was first notified of the hole in a section of wall, near the township of Yangqianhe, about 215 miles west of Beijing, on the afternoon of Aug. The pair, a 38-year-old man and 55-year-old-woman, caused “irreversible damage” when they used the construction equipment to widen an existing gap and create a shortcut that was large enough to drive the excavator through it, the Youyu County Public Security Bureau said in a news release last week. Two workers have been detained in northern China after the local authorities said they plowed through a section of the country’s Great Wall with an excavator, leaving a gaping hole.
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