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The Passes Of the Greatwall

12 Feb 2020
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The Shanhaiguan Pass Located in the northeast of Qinhuangdao city, Hebei Province, the Shanhaiguan pass was built in 1381, having a total length of about 26 km. It is the northeast starting point of the Ming Great Wall, and is also the estuary of the Great Wall. Situated in a...

Great Wall History ( 1)

12 Feb 2020
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The History of the GreatWall The Great Wall is a greatmiracle created by the ancient Chinese people,and is also the witness of China’slong history.According to historical records,the Great Wall was firstconstructed in the war torn Warring States period,and the state of Qi built...

The Structure and Operation

12 Feb 2020
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“Taking full advantage of the topographical conditions to build forts and passes”, means that the construction of the Great Wall had taken full advantage of the natural terrain environment. “In line with the terrain”referred to carrying out the construction work according to the...

The Significance of the Great wall

12 Feb 2020
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During the Warring States period,on the vast land of China the dukes and princes of the ducal states were contending for hegemony on the one hand,and on the other hand nomadic alliance of the Huns Xiongnu people,the Donghu and others from the north of the Great Wall constantly...

Other sections of the Greatwall

12 Feb 2020
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The Hushan Great Wall The Hushan Great Wall is located on the bank of Yalu River, east of Dandong in Liaoning Province, with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the opposite side of the river. The Hushan Great Wall was first built in 1469, with a total length of about...

The Silk Road

12 Feb 2020
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The Silk road was a land access which opened up by Zhang Qian in his mission to the Western Regions.It started from Chang’an(now Xi’an),running all the way through Gansu,Xinjiang,Central Asia ,West Asia and linking the Mediterranean countries with the Western Han Dynasty.It was...

The Grey-brick Wall

12 Feb 2020
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The construction method of the grey-brick walls was roughly the same as the adobe walls,which was to have the readymade grey-bricks laid up piece by piece,reinforcing the wall by pointing in between the two bricks with glutinous rice or yellow mud or lime in thick liquid...

Stories of The Greatwall

12 Feb 2020
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Lime of Ten-Thousand Yearsand the Town of Yanjing There was no time when thestate of Yan started to build the Great wall,so the stones and bricks of thewall were laid and plastered with clay.According to legend,the king of thestate of Yan ordered not to stop the construction even...

72-hour Visa-free Transit Policy in Beijing and Shanghai

12 Feb 2020
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Visitors from 45 countries can now benefit from the 72-hour visa-free stay policy in Beijing and Shanghai. Visitors holding third country visas and plane tickets can now apply for a transit without visa at Beijing and Shanghai airports. Foreign visitors are not permitted to leave...

China′s Forbidden City to control visitor numbers

12 Feb 2020
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BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) — The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, on Wednesday unveiled plans to control the number of visitors for protection purposes. The plans, including not allowing annual ticket holders to visit during peak seasons, a seven-day...
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