3 tourists held for damage to Great Wall
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Three tourists who vandalized the Great Wall 鈥 one of China鈥檚 most popular historic landmarks 鈥 have been detained and fined, officials said yesterday.
Two men and a woman were detained on Sunday after scrawling their names on the wall with a key, wire and other sharp objects, administrators of the Badaling special tourism zone said in a statement.
Around 70 kilometers from Beijing, Badaling is the most popular section of the wall for tourists.
The statement did not offer details on the amount they were fined or the length of their detention.
Under China鈥檚 law for protecting cultural relics, the fine for carving or scrawling on a historic building is less than 200 yuan (US$31), but for serious damage offenders can be detained for up to 10 days and fined 500 yuan.
Construction of the Great Wall began in the 3rd century BC to stave off Mongol invasions, and it spans over 21,000km.
Today it attracts around 10 million tourists per year 鈥 but the swell of visitors, combined with age and weathering, has left swathes of it in ruins.
This isn鈥檛 the first time the relic has been damaged by misbehaving tourists.
A visitor was caught on camera defacing the historic site with a key last March, on the first day the Great Wall opened up for tourists after being closed for two months during the height of the pandemic, Global Times reported.
The Beijing government introduced a blacklist last April and threatened to name and shame tourists who damaged the wall.
The latest incident led to an uproar on Chinese social media. 鈥淲hy do these uncultured idiots visit cultural sites?鈥 wrote one commentator.
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