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Mr. Hu: Do NOT Tear That Wall Down!
Interesting news keeps flowing out of China, so we'll keep relaying it. It turns out that a private contractor was building a new road, which destroyed a section of the Great Wall of China, as well as a large beacon tower.
The fine on the contractor, from the Cultural Relics Bureau of Inner Mongolia, was a tiny 500,000 yuan ($63,000 USD), for the destruction.
This took place in the Inner Mongolian village of Longsheng, near Fengzhen, north-west of Beijing.
I guess they figured they still have 4500 more miles of the Wall left.
Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Asia, China
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
marilyn Nov 17th 2006 10:35AM
Doesn't "UNESCO World Heritage Site" mean anything? Not surprising I guess when you look at what the Chinese government's doing to Tibet: http://news.nationalgeographic.com//news/2006/10/photogalleries/best-worst/photo6.html
Marco Nov 17th 2006 12:06PM
The Chinese forgot all about his 3000 years of culture. Money first, all the rest last, even his own identity.