Section of Great Wall of China Marred in Name of Restoration
A villager walks across a restored section of the Great Wall in Suizhong County in northeastern China's Liaoning Province, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.
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Beijing (AP) -- Chinese officials are being pilloried over the smoothing-over of a crumbling but much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great Wall of China in the name of restoration.
The widely mocked project on the UNESCO World Heritage Site involved an 8-kilometer (5-mile) unrestored Xiaohekou section of the wall that has become known as the "most beautiful wild Great Wall."