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September 2002
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Yunnan Holds Public Examinations to Select Officials
No Poppies, More Sugar Cane
Discovery of City Dating back 5,500 Years
Threat of Good-Life Disease Looms Large among Youth
Law to Protect the Great Wall Wildness in the Making
College Students' Views on Sex Show Cause for Concern

Law to Protect the Great Wall Wildness in the Making


The Shapoyu Great Wall in Zunhua, Hebei Province, which in its natural state.

According to a general relics survey, 600 km stretch of the 629 km Beijing Great Wall is in its natural state, and incomparable for its antiquity and natural esthetics. In view of damage and destruction to it courtesy of the "unofficial" tourism sector, the municipal government is to draw up regulations that will safeguard the Great Wall, especially the wilder, unreconstructed sections, in Beijing. The unadulterated Great Wall will be left in its natural condition in a bid to save it from artificiality and modernization.

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