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September 23, 2016

Great Wall marred during restoration

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese officials are conceding mistakes in the smoothing over of a much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great Wall of China in the name of restoration.

The widely mocked project involves an 8-kilometer (5-mile) unrestored section of the wall on which visitors are technically forbidden to tread.


 
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