Development threatening Great Wall From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: July 28, 2002| Author: | Copyright 2002 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Development threatening Great Wall

Preservation group seeks to protect and maintain sections near Beijing

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press

Sunday, July 28, 2002

Beijing -- Built 2,000 years ago to keep out Mongol marauders and Manchu militias, the Great Wall of China now faces a more modern threat. And this time, it's from the inside.

City dwellers on holiday strew garbage over the wall's battlements and carve their initials into its bricks. Villagers cart away pieces to make sheep corrals, and developers are leasing land at the wall's base to build tract homes.

"The wall is already in ...

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