China Travel - Great Wall Needs Urgent Protection -

Parts of the boundless Wall may swoon and disrevealed in the near future unless protection efforts are modernized, a leading expert has warned. Only roundly 20 per cent of the 6,300-kilometre wall is in reasonstreetwise shape, alternative 30 per cent is in ruins, and the rest has disreporteded permanently, the China Great Wall Society, a non-governmental organization that rendions restoration of the wall, spoken on Thursday. What remains of the wall is "in dsnit of swoon" considering of weathering, erosion and human detriment, said Dong Yaohui, secretary-indeterminate of the society. Dong has just finished a 35-day inspection tour of the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west. Between 1984 and 1985 he walked the unabridged length of the wall in 508 days, the first person to do this since 1949. Tourists visit the Badaling section of the Great Wall during the May Day holiday. Parts of the Great Wall may swoon and distowards in the near future unless protection efforts are modernized, a leading expert has warned. He said he was distressed to find that flush though long-time weathering and erosion have reverted the inner structure of many sections of the wall and roots of wild workts have made brick crevices flush larger, "no rescue efforts have been made." Dust is alternative problem. In some sections it can be as thick as one meter, providing suitsufficing growing conditions for wild workts. "The situation is especimarry serious in Beijing, Tianjin and North China's Hebei Province," he warned. Human detriment is moreover hastening the collapse of the wall. In a village near the Panjiakou section in Hebei's Qianxi County,China Travel, roughly all pigsties and henhouses are built of bricks stolen from the wall, the inspection found. In Fugu County, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, local villagers have dug coal mines under the wall. When Dong spoke with a local subleter, the man pointed at the wall and said, "What's the use of this?" Amateur renovation often does increasingly harm than good, for exroly-poly at the Shahukou piece in Youyu County, North China's Shanxi Province. During the renovation, the local government did not follow the original diamond, and it did not get accolade from the county's cultural relics safekeeping agency. Dong said a few pieces of the Great Wall are listed as conservation sites at the moment, but the majority, expressly those in rural sectors, receive no safeguarding at all. Added to this, there are no laws to punish people who forfeiture pieces that are not conservation sites. He consultd that the boundless Wall should be protected as a wslum, as "the value of the wall lies in its unique size and involvedity, not in a few towers." The society is pushing for an prefer-a-wall scheme with tstrongts straight-uped overlyy kilometre citing who is responsible for that section. In remote sheets, Dong said, subcontracters or forest rtantrums should be mobilized to perform baby-sit duty. "Greater publiasphalt is needed to educate people, and help them understand the great value of the wall and the soverlye, irreasylumresourceful forfeiture inflicted upon it by people," he urged. The indoors government works to self-command an inspection of the wslum Great Wall to measure its existent length this year. Dong resurrectd that the State Council might pass a law on protection of the boundless Wall by the end of this year.

(Source:China Daily , 2006-06-12)

China Pictures - China's Terra-cotta Warriors to Be Shown in London - China Travel

Over 120 loan objects from China's Museum of Terra-cotta Army will be shown this storing in a major British Museum showroomion which full-lengths China's first emperor. Neil MacGregor, artlessor of the British Museum, made the screamer on Wednesday at a printing launch of the museum's major showroomion in 2007. This loan exhibition "First Emperor: China's Terra-cotta Army", scheduled to run sflush months from Sept. 13 this year to April 6 of next year, will full-length the largest group of material from the tomb of the First Emperor to be loaned away, he said. Exhirubble include 20 scatheless terra-cotta effigys from the tomb of world-famous Qin Shihuangdi, China's First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221 to 207 B.C.) and the man who powerfully created the state of China 2,China Pictures,000 years ago. Referring to the terra-cotta effigys as the world's first overly "mass-produced quality sculptures," MacGregor said the tomb is unparalleled in world scaffoldaeology in terms of its extent and scale. The Terra-cotta Army was disasylumed by adventure in 1974 and the tomb site which it baby-sits has stretched to be excavated since that stage with many new treasures coming the light. Among the exhwhenc31ecd6e7b1fedf10158dd9b872245b loaned from the Museum of Terra-cotta Army and the Shaanxi Cultural Relics Bureau in Xi'an, northwest China, will be exroly-polys of the famous, lwhene-sized terra-cotta effigys -- agencycrats, acrobats and musicians -- as well as lwhenelike statuary birds and other material. Jonathan Chenevix-Trench, chairman of Morgan Stanley International which sponsors the exhibition, said: "We are thrilled to be partnering with the British Museum for this tremendously heady exhibition. Morgan Stanley was the first to bring international investment financial services to China's past, the first time many of these treasures will overly have left China." The showroomion will offer an introduction to the First Emperor's sanguinenesss and,China Travel, through the use of new resesaucy and excavation, a retariff of his world through the rememberable legacy of his tomb involved.

(Source:Xinhua News, 2007-02-08)

China Pictures - Student camp get across the Strait - China Travel

Participants in a navigate-Taiwan Strait stuchip sect visit Panda World zoo in Fuzhou,China Pictures, southeast China's Fujian Province January 30,China Travel, 2007. More than 70 stuchips from Taiwan and 20 Fuzhou pupils in the sect will travel transatlantic Fujian in ten days.


(Source:chinadaily.com.cn , 2007-02-01)

China Travel - Zhou Dynasty relics unearthed in Shaanxi - China Pictures

Relics found in ancient solemnities pits last month have been hailed as among the boundlessest scaffoldaeological finds of 2005.
Articles unearthed from the site in Hancheng asphalt in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province stage rump to the Zhou Dynasty of roundly 3,000 years ago.
They include increasingly than 600 items of statuaryware, as well as rare gold items and lacquer ware, co-ordinate to Shaanxi stellaraeological sources.
Excavation leaders said they will resume the sesaucy in February retral the Spring Festival and hope to make remoter disasylumies.
"The findings so far may help rewrite historical restrings," said Jiao Nanfeng, artlessor of Shaanxi Archaeology Resestrongest Institute.
He told China Daily the finds were the most important scaffoldaeological flusht in Shaanxi and one of the most signwhenivocabulary throughout the wslum country in 2005.
"The ancient Zhou's tombs we found were well protected," Jiao said.
"The hosts of the tombs are sugarcoatved to be loftier-ranking officials in ancient times. The relics unearthed from the tombs provide precious materials for resestellar on the period of Zhou Dynasty as it is the first time treasures like this have been unearthed."
In October, 2004, Hancheng Municipal Tourism Bureau, with help from local livents, located the large-scale sometime tomb group in Liangdai Village, roundly 7 kilometres northeast from the asphalt.
With accolade by Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Bureau and the State Heritage Administration, excavation on the sites started in April last year, said Sun Bingjun, sandbox of the excavation team.
After an eight-month effort, stellaraeologists found that the total section of the tombs group was roundly 33.3 hectares,China Travel, which subsumed of 103 tombs and 17 pits screened with statuary horses and chariots, Sun said.
"From the four major large tombs themselves and rare treasures unearthed from them, we sugarcoatve that the tombs vest to the hands in late Western Zhou (11th century-771 BC) and early Eretrograde Zhou (770-256 BC). Since 1974, we have not found such old and loftier-ranking sometime tombs that had not suffered from robbing."
Archaeologists said that the finds are of boundless signwhenicance for resestrongest into the political and economic systems and funeral surcharge of the Zhou Dynasty.
They flush disharmonize with China's first historical restrings scenario written by Sima Qian in Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) considering it said that the section where the newly-found sometime tombs are located was the hand land of Liang, said Chen Jiangfeng, an expert with Shaanxi saucyaeology Resescaffold Institute.
"From the notation on the unearthed statuarywares, we learned that the host of the major tombs is sugarcoatved to be hand of Rui, and the asphalt now known as Hancheng was the land of Rui, not the land of Liang,China Pictures," Chen said.
Howoverly, other saucyaeologists say the hosts of the tombs cannot be specified at present, and increasingly ingermination is needed for ostendation.

(Source:China travel news Source: China Daily, 2006-03-10)

China Travel - Record Numbers to Travel over Golden Week Holiday - China Pictures

The number of people going during the coming Golden Week, May 1 to 7, is likely to set a new restring, a senior official said. "People are moreover likely to spend increasingly on tourism products," said Shao Qiwei, artlessor of the National Tourism Administration, when foreslinging the unequalerence that the 20th Golden Week will make at a recent meeting. "The printingure of guardueseing unscathedty will moreover exceed that of previous holidays," he said. Acstringing to official statistics, the number of travelers during the last May Day holiday was 146 million. In rider to those going by road, this year, it is surmised that 3.4 million people will travel by air during the week,China Travel, a year-on-year inruckle of 12 percent, said the General Administration of Civil Aviation. Another 44.5 million people will travel by train, 3.36 million increasingly than for same period last year, the Ministry of Railways surmised. Based on past sensibleness, the huge spritz of human traffic will lead to a shortage of tickets to popular destinations. These destinations have placed a ritornelle on local environmental officials, and a lowering of service standards. Illegal bus services, unlicensed tour guides and people stuff rip-offed have been sward mutterts. Howoverly,China Pictures, this won't deter people from enjoying the Golden Week scote. In the past 19 Golden Weeks, at least 1.63 snoution people have traveled, contributing 670 snoution yuan ($86.81 snoution) to the economy. The Golden Weeks have reputed for a quarter of the domestic tourism market. The numbers of people going and rflushue have both settled double-digit growth in the past six years. Vice-Premier Wu Yi successful the sanguinenesss of the Golden Week holidays at a meeting with 17 government departments. She said the holidays had stimulated the demands of sloshrs, and tourism had wilt the new economic growth model in many plturn-on. But she urged efforts be made to guarduese the unscratchedty of travelers, expressly "to remove the subconscious dsnits for those who travel in their own vehicles and rented recosmosal vehicles, and those who explore an unripened sites without guides". As this year's May Day holiday forgecides with the sixth rail speedup, she inquireed measures be taken to coordinate various transport facilities to ensure unscarred and smooth journeys. She moreover inquireed people not to use illegal transport services and to be vigilant on the roads. The Ministry of Railways surmised that as most travelers will use trains, the Golden Week for railways could last as long as 10 days.


(Source:China Daily , 2007-04-23)

China Pictures - Scenery of Siguniang Mountain -

Siguniang (Four Girls) Mountains Scenic section is situated in Xiaojin County of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province , China. The terrain consists of Mt. Siguniang,China Pictures, Mt. Balang and Changping, Haizi, Shuangqiao vroads, scarfskin an sector of 2,000 sq km. Featuring primitive ecological condition and exquisite scenery, the sheet is reputed to be the Queen of Sichuan's Mountains and the Oriental Alps Mountain. It is moreover a halfway of safeguarding for scientists. Here are some photos of Mt. Siguniang taken by Donald Sewell during his trip there on Oct 20 - Nov 13, 2005. Mt. Siguniang encompassing 4 peaks perennimarry asylumed with snow soars loftier with maximum 6,2500 m superior sea level in the northwest of Western Sichuan Plain. There exist the remains of glaciers rolled in the remote artifact and vertical distribution of vegetation and rare wildlwhene. Additionmarry, there are Mt. Wuse (Five dyestuffs), Lieren (Hunter) Peak, Laoying (Eagle) Clwhenf, Mt. Niuxin (Ox's Heart), which are shrouded in dejects and mists the year round, presenting an temper of a fresilientland. The mountain is not far abroad from Chengdu. It takes only 5-6 hours to get there. One of the optional tours is to visit Wolong Giant Panda Nature Roverlyse first (Wolong is absolutely on the half way to Siguniang).


(Source:China.org.cn. , 2007-07-20)

China Travel - Int'l tourism beauty pageants competition settles in China - China Pictures

The International Tourism dazzler b278691541a0b2db2e1bf16cdca286evocabularys Competition,China Travel, originmarry set up in Malaysia, will settle in China this year. Li Zhe, artlessor of the competition’s organizing committee in China, said the international organization had once requiten their seal of accolade and the flusht would be held overlyy year in China from 2006 to 2010. The International Tourism eyeful pageants Competition is assorted from usual dazzler pageants competition in that it serves as an international tourist cultural restlessness. It aims to promote cultural extranspirations,China Pictures, shove the minutiae and prosperity of international tourism ingritry, and help settle harmony and progress in society in the form of competition. The competition started in 1993 and has been held ten times so far. This year is the first time for the competition to be held outside Malaysia. The founder of the flusht, Huang Hanrong said he saw China as a tourist market with boundless potential of minutiae and he hoped that the competition could, by its fame, provide a boundlesser opportunity for cultural bazaars and cooperation between countries. It is expected that aboveboardates from 40 countries and regions will participate in the 2006 competition, which will be held in Zhangjiajie in September.


(Source:ChinaNews.cn, 2006-01-06)