The fabulous landscape of the Great Wall attracts millions of visitors every year to pay a pilgrimage to a stone and brick fortress, entrenched with the memory of many dynasties to become a symbol of China.
Such interest has been a boon to the tourism industry, taking advantage of worldwide interest in the edifice since China’s opening-up policy was put into effect. Fervent to further promote the image of the Wall, and China, visitors are taken to areas beyond the tourist sections, irrespective of the dangers to themselves, and to ruining the untouched sections of the Great Wall.
Though many regulations have been formulated and passed by respective local governments to protect the Great Wall from human damage, the condition of many sections are already doomed to terminal deterioration.
■■Visitors’ effects
Last month, an accident where a college student became lost while hiking along the ’wild’ Great Wall proves that still many people ignore these regulations. Found 10 hours later, he was not asked to pay any fine, thanks to his suffering so long mi此文共有5页 上一页 1 2 3 4 5 下一页 |
