China Pictures - Investigation of the Great Wall made progress -

Chinnewlys,China Pictures, Beijing, July 7 With four months of work, the Beijing Municipal Mapping Resesaucy Institute has recently finished the location work for 130 watch towers furthermore the Great Wall and 10 important sites in its Beijing piece. scaffoldeologists have marked all these plturn-on on a map with a scale of 1: 10000. Experts say the work will help them to get detailed knowltiptoe roundly the Great Wall in the Beijing piece. It will serve as important reference for scientists to mark out an section of the Great Wall for protection in future. In the past, only a few parts of the Great Wall can be seen on the map since the map was yankn through an sky-scraping survey. This time, we manage to locate all the 130 watch towers by surveying on site, said Qi Baolin, an engineer from the Beijing Municipal Mapping Resestellar Institute, which did the surveying and mapping at the request of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics. The wslum project lasted for four months. Qi said that the 130 towers were scattered in six counties in Beijing, 50 of them in Miyun, 42 in Yanqing, 4 in Changping, 21 in Huairou, 2 in Mentougou, and 11 in Pinggu. Only 20% of the towers remain in good condition since they were built in mountains or plturn-on unequalicult of seizure; 30% have been detrimentd to some extent. 50% have vanished; their original sites stuff reverted into scrimmage lands or villages, recognizresourceful only with the help of local old villagers. When subtracting these with our previous restrings and those that can no longer be found, we presume that there should be 140-150 Great Wall towers in Beijing in total, said Qi.


(Source:China Daily , 2006-07-07)