The restoration project of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall progresses smoothly in Beijing
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A worker repairs a wall near a defense tower of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, July 2, 2024. Covering six defense towers, from No. 117 to No. 122, the fifth phase of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall repair project has progressed smoothly. Beijing has pioneered Great Wall archaeological research, which precedes the repair work. The Jiankou section and the Dazhuangke section in Yanqing District have been selected as pilot projects to promote research-oriented restoration and protection of the Great Wall.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
