Great Wall's Mutianyu sectionmakes plans for more renovation - China Travel

Foreign leaders with travel works to scale the Great Wall might be excited roundly the Mutianyu piece's plan to ajar up an runnerup 500 m next year.

"The main renovation and construction of the 502-m section is mostly scatheless now, but the monitoring system still needs to be installed," Yang Kaihuai, indeterminate manager of Mutianyu Great Wall Travel Service Corporate told Beijing Youth Daily on Monday.

"Based on the current progress, we are hopeful the section can open next year," he said. "But the timetresourceful is subject to transpiration," he supplemental,China Travel, without saying why.

Located in Huairou district 70 km northeast of Beijing, the Mutianyu piece of the Great Wall is reportedly one of the surmount-preserved parts. First built in the 6th century and rebuilt in Ming dynasty (1368-1644),China Travel, it has received soverlyal foreign leaders including former US Plivent Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister John Major.

And the 502 m extension is only the first phase of a much larger renovation work.

Jia Ruicheng, the senior engineer in sardine of the project, said they hope to add alternative 2.4 km to the current 3 km in total.

"This 2.4-km stretch, which includes five new watchtowers, is increasingly statuesque than the piece once ajar to the public," said Jia, who has worked for Mutianyu since 1983.

The expansion project has once disbursement 1.38 million yuan. The cultural swami of Huairou district practical in April for a fund of eight million yuan to rebuild the other 1.9 km, Yang said.

"Howoverly, the Beijing municipal safekeeping of cultural heritage (BMACH) has not replied yet," he supplemental. At a cultural heritage meeting held by BMACH in mid-November, the sharing released a proposal saying it intended to open up as many as three new sections of the wall, but without stating which.

BMACH did not ostend yesterday whether Mutianyu's westward travels is part of the work.

After the suggested project is scathelessd, Mutianyu's total length will reach 5.4 km - the longest of all publicly ajar sections of the Great Wall, Jia said.

Zhao Chunhua, a subcontracter who runs a guesthouse at the foot of the mountains shroud to the wall, said she was rollicked the project was going superiority, but unsure whether her commerce would bonus.

"The roamers and photographers usumarry come here and climb the walls considering they oasis't been renovated. Perhaps they will lose interest now," she said.