 The Great Wall of China is one of the

most important World Heritage Sites.

It was selected as one of the seven
wonders of the world in the new
International Opinion Poll in 2007.
The Great Wall of China became one
of the most important sites to be seen
by visitors and tourists. People flock to
it from all over the world every year.
The Great Wall of China is the
world’s largest military
structure. It was built as a
defense to stop invaders from
northern areas.
The Great Wall is actually a
series of walls built and rebuilt
by different dynasties over
1,000 years.

The Great Wall runs from Jiayu Pass of Gansu Province in the west to
the mouth of the Yalu river in Liaonling Province in the east.
 The Great Wall of China is more
than 4,000 miles long.
It was built over a period of 300
years.
 In 2009 it was believed that the
length of the wall can be up to
5,000 kilometers (about 3107
miles) long.
The BaDaLing section of the Great Wall
was built to safeguard the capital of
Beijing and is considered an important
strategic point.
It is 7.8 meters in height and 5 meters
wide. The top of the wall is paved with
square bricks and is wide enough for
six horses or ten soldiers to march
side by side.
The BaDaLing wall is built from local
materials including green bricks from Section of BaDaLing wall near Beijing
the surrounding hills and rectangular
slabs of stone.
Near BaDaLing is the Pass of
Conscripted Laborers.
It is built 10 kilometers south of
the BaDaLing section in an 18.5
long valley.
Pass of Conscripted
Laborers

Passage Inscriptions
The Mutianyu Section of the
Great Wall is located 70
kilometers northeast of
Beijing.
It links the Gubeikou section
on the east and the
BaDaLing section on the
west.
Mutianyu Section
The JinShanLing section
contains 67 watchtowers
within an 11 kilometer
stretch. Each watchtower is
unique and an example of
different architecture.
This section of the Wall is 5
to 8 meters high. Its sides
taper from 6 meters wide at
the bottom to 5 meters wide JinShanLing Section with
at the top. Watchtowers
The Simatai Section is
located east of
JinShanLing and is
also part of the
Gubeikou defense
barrier.
It is 5.4 kilometers long
and has 35
watchtowers. Simatai Section of Great Wall
Since the 1600’s, parts of the
Wall in some areas have been
dismantled to provide building
materials.
Other areas have succumb to
nature and are buried by silt.
Using satellite data, scientist
have rediscovered more than
600 miles of buried Wall in the
past decade. Satellite Photo of the Great Wall
Note double lines in B&W radar
images – remainder of previous wall.
 Since China opened its borders to tourism
in the late 1980s, there has been more than
a million people visiting the Great Wall of
China each year
 With time, tourism has harmed the Great
Wall of China.
Books:
Ann Paludan, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors.
New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 1998

Robert E. Murowchick, Cradles of Civilization – China.

Normand: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994

Magazine:
The Great Wall’s Ancestor, Discover (Aug. 1996)

Internet:
The Great Wall, www.chinavista.com/travel/greatwall/greatwall.html
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Billy Chan, The Great Wall of China, www.londonccnc.ca/chinese_school/greatwall/

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Secrets of the Great Wall, www.discovery.com/stories/history/greatwall/greatwall.html

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Famous Scene of the Great Wall, www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/scene/index.htm

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