The Great Wall of China Threatened Collapse

BEIJING - The stability of the Great Wall of China is threatened by iron and copper mining activities illegal. Mining sites that make tunnels under the ground where the Great Wall of China stands to be hollow, so that the Great Wall of China to be easily collapsed.

As quoted from CNNGo, on Tuesday (10/25/2011), this wild mining has destroyed 80 percent of this huge wall in some areas. It is said by some residents and local officials Laiyan County of Hebei Province, about 700 meters of the wall which was built during the reign of Emperor Wanli during Ming Dynasty (1573-1620), has collapsed. If mining is not stopped then some towers would be following the collapse of the.

According to Dong Haui, Vice Chairman of the Association of the Great Wall, in fact in 2006 the existing regulations regarding the protection of the Great Wall of China. However, because of the length of this wall, then the regulation is difficult to run.

The central government has also asked local governments to fund improvements include the Great Wall in their budgets, but this has not been done. General awareness of the problem is damage to the Great Wall was still low.

Unfortunately, the Great Wall of China are protected only part of the famous most visited tourist namely Ba Da Ling Great Wall is located 60 kilometers from downtown Beijing and is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Tourism.

The community is only considered an important part of the most famous of the Great Wall of China, and assume that the other part is as good as this section.

China Great Wall was first built about 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huang to fight the Hun invasion from the north, but most of the Great Wall are still visible today was built during the Ming Dynasty.

According to the survey in 2009, the Great Wall includes more than 8850 kilometers in total, over 156 counties in 10 provinces in northern China.

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