{"id":14411,"date":"2007-08-29T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/29\/sandstorms-eating-away-at-chinas-great-wall-ap\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T21:10:04","slug":"sandstorms-eating-away-at-chinas-great-wall-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/sandstorms-eating-away-at-chinas-great-wall-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandstorms Eating Away at China&#8217;s Great Wall &#8211; AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/070829_chinawall_vmed_530a.widec.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/070829_chinawall_vmed_530a.widec.php','popup','width=298,height=420,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/070829_chinawall_vmed_530a.widec-thumb.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"155\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> AP warns that the western sections of China&#8217;s Great Wall encountered the damage and &#8220;may disappear entirely in 20 years.&#8221; From MSNBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;&#8221;Frequent storms not only eroded the mud, but also cracked the wall and caused it to collapse or break down,&#8221; Xinhua quoted archaeologist Zhou Shengrui as saying.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most threatened sections of the wall runs through Minqin county in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gansu_province\">Gansu province <\/a>along the ancient <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silk_Road\">Silk Road<\/a> trade route. Unlike the better-known stone and brick sections around Beijing, the wall in Gansu is made of less-resilient packed earth that easily erodes&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20492488\/ \"target=\"_blank\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Image: Hikers walk on a crumbling section of the Great Wall north of Beijing, via MSNBC]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP warns that the western sections of China&#8217;s Great Wall encountered the damage and &#8220;may disappear entirely in 20 years.&#8221; From MSNBC: &#8230;&#8221;Frequent storms not only eroded the mud, but also cracked the wall and caused it to collapse or break down,&#8221; Xinhua quoted archaeologist Zhou Shengrui as saying. 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