Bear Zoo at Badaling Great Wall
Sponsored by the Yanbian Dongfang Bear Paradise in Jilin Province and the Beijing Badaling Forestry Centre, the Badaling Bear Zoo, combining wild animal preservation and tourism, opened on June 27, 1993. The zoo covers an area of 2 hectares (5 acres) in the Tianxian Ravine in Badaling. Unlike the wild wolves and foxes that can still be found in the areas, bears are confined in a zoo that consists of 5 sections with 380 in it. The zoo will be expanded into a 40-hectare ( 100-acre ) park for protection of plants and wild animals. The zoo has several sections for bears of different species and ages. Special shows will feature tame bears.......

Beacon Towers
Beacon towers are the communicational facilities. Earlier than the appearance of the Great Wall, Chinese people had learnt to convey messages by fire. Those beacon towers are named according to their places as well. Though they are differently named, they actually function the same to relay military messages by means of bonfires and columns of smokes. The beacon towers weather through ages and remain the best evidence for people to discover the greatness of the Great Wall and charms of the history.......

Length of the Great Wall
There are various measurements of the length of the Great Wall because in China's history, more than twenty dynasties and states of dukes or princes built their own walls at different places. Of these, according to historical documents, three exceeded 10,000 li ......

An Englishman's Lasting Bond with the Great Wall
An enthusiast concerned about the protection of the Great Wall, William Lindesay from Britain is the director-general of the International Friends of the Great Wall. Since 1998, he has organized many campaigns aiming to protect the sections of the Great Wall in the wilderness just outside Beijing. His efforts and deeds won him the Friendship Prize for Foreign Experts from the State Council of China in 1998. And the Xinhua News Agency has praised him as "the most successful foreigner in exploring the Great Wall."......

The Great Wall Culture
In the north of China, there lies a 6,700-kilometer-long (4,161-mile-long) ancient wall. Now well-known as the Great Wall of China, it starts at the Jiayuguan Pass of Gansu Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Pass of Hebei Province in the east. As one of the Eight Wonders in the world, the Great Wall of China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and its culture. ......

The Great Wall protections
No one who has seen something of the Great Wall of China can deny that this wonder of ancient military fortification is a fantastic relic from the past that also bears witness to human endeavour. The Wall attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year from all parts of the world. The Great Wall is probably the most widely recognised and enduring symbol of China and it has been rightly said, "The man who doesn't visit the Wall has never been to China."......