Reuters
June 1, 2007
BEIJING China’s heritage bureau has begun an inquiry into mining companies alleged to have brought down part of the Great Wall to allow their lorries through to avoid paying road tolls, state media reported yesterday.
Coalmining companies operating near Hujiayao village, on the border between the northern province of Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, were also reported to have taken soil from parts of the Mingera (1368-1644) wall, listed a World Heritage Site in 1987, to build houses, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a local newspaper. “Big trucks carrying coal had even opened a big gap in the Great Wall to make a coal-shipping thoroughfare,” the paper said.
Last October China fined an investment company 500,000 yuan (£33,000) for building a highway through a section of the wall in Inner Mongolia (Reuters)
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