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Great Wall needs more protection
www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-06 15:09:10
Chinanews, Apr. 6 �C Recently, constructors that are building the
expressway from Qingdao to Laiwu in Shandong province, have to inject an
additional 12.5 million yuan of investment in order to change the road
plan to erect a 300-meter-long bridge at Linyi section. The change of the
original design is intended to avoid the Great Wall relic that lies on
the road. Regarding this incident, the People's Daily carried an
editorial, commenting that the change revealed that China right now is
not going to protect the Great Wall section in Shandong with a series of
scientific and comprehensive measures. It also reflects that protection
of the Great Wall on the whole is not good enough.
The Great Wall section in Shandong province is also called ��Qi Great
Wall��, which was built by the Qi state during the Spring and Autumn (770
BC- 476 BC) and the Warring States period (475 BC �C 221 BC), and was one
of the oldest parts of the Great Wall in China. Currently, the existing
section of the Qi Great Wall mostly lies in the northeastern part of
Qishui County in Shandong province and was a national protection relic.
The Qi Great Wall provides valuable information for Chinese scientists to
study the Great Wall culture of the ancient time. However, its location
collides with the building of the Qingdao-Laiwu expressway.
For one time, the Qingdao-Laiwu project was regarded as one overriding
all other projects. In the original plan, the section of the Great Wall
that blocks the construction of the expressway should be pulled down, in
other words, the 2,700-year-old relic would be totally destroyed.
However, constructors changed the original plan later and consulted with
local archeological bureau for a proper solution to it. In the end, they
agreed to change the original plan and instead build a bridge that will
pass over the Great Wall underneath, thus preventing a national relic
from being destroyed.
In recent years, as China's infrastructure construction and urbanization
process speed up amid the country's social and economic development, a
lot of cultural relics are on the verge of extinction. Due to overly
exploitation, many ancient towns, streets, buildings, relics and
sceneries are being destroyed. The Great Wall is no exception, of course,
as many people destroy the bricks or the whole part of the Great Wall, or
make graffiti on it.
In the editorial, the People's Daily says the Great Wall is a reflection
of Chinese people's wisdom and the history of the Chinese nation.
Protection of the Great Wall reflects the protection of our national
spirit.
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