Hi Guys, there's an interesting piece of information about the Great Wall..
I had been there twice & I feel proud to climb over it, but now things are getting worse day by day...Share your views..
Around 30 per cent of China's Ming-era Great Wall has disappeared over time as adverse natural conditions and reckless human activities - including stealing the bricks to build houses - erode the Unesco World Heritage site, state media reported.

The Great Wall is not a single unbroken structure but stretches for thousands of kilometres in sections, from Shanhaiguan on the east coast to Jiayuguan in the windswept sands on the edge of the Gobi desert.
Poor villagers in Lulong county in the northern province of Hebei used to knock thick grey bricks from a section of wall in their village to build homes, and slabs engraved with Chinese characters were sold for 30 yuan ($4.80) each by local residents, it said.

Under Chinese regulations people who take bricks from the Great Wall can be fined up to 5,000 yuan, the state-run Global Times said Monday.

What do I think? It is hardly news.

Can you please add the link to a website if you have one.

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No nes at all. The wall has been disapearing since the day it was build.

perhaps they need to up that fine

or give prison sentences

They could use to stones to build new prisons for people who steal the stones.

Nothing surprising!No faith,no morality,no hope,no future!The poor are struggling for money or survive,so I could understand.

This is not news. Could be good click bait for GKM though. Are the developers paying you?

So..build homes for the villagers, so they won't need to steal bricks. Next - help them to earn honest work, like selling FAKE brick replicas instead of the real things...maybe?