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Chinese close shops around Great Wall

 


SHOPS and restaurants atop the Great Wall of China are being given the shove as part of a move to restore the original appearance of the country's best known historical site, it was reported today.

Since the 1950s, more than 30 small commercial outlets from tea houses to photo booths have accumulated along the wall's heavily visited Badaling section, according to the official Beijing Daily.

Those outlets have created an atmosphere that is "too commercial, " the paper said, also citing problems they create with noise, sanitation, and damage to the wall.




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