One of the most widespread and accepted myths is that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space. But it is a false myth; Neil Armstrong himself stated that continents, great lakes and other natural elements could be distinguished from the Moon, but that from there no man-made structure was perceived.
Well, it seems that it will be increasingly difficult to see the wall from the earth. UNESCO says that the monument must be protected; Den Xiaoping launched in 1984 the campaign “Love our China, we will restore our wall”. Useless. The Chinese State Cultural Heritage Administration announced last June that over 2,000 of the original 21,000 kilometres have completely disappeared. And many others are lost every year. The poorest citizens have always taken stones from it to build their houses and, in recent years, the wall is crumbling in thousands of smaller fragments to sell to tourists. Their displacements and rains do not favor the structure either.
The restoration of the 61-kilometre section in Shandong province has been budgeted for: 208 million yuan (€30 million). The multiplication makes it easy to deduce that the complete and correct protection of the Great Wall of China is not possible.
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