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Ancient remains bulldozed for new road
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April 19, 2010, Monday
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RESIDENTS of a southwestern China village have complained that 1,300-year-old remains have been being bulldozed to make way for a new road.
Residents said the road can be re-routed to avoid Longshou Pass in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, but the road builder said the local geological and technological conditions forced them to cut through the pass site, today's China Youth Daily reported.
Longshou Pass used to be the only entrance to north Dali with five city walls and five city gates as well as military facilities. The remnants were listed for prefecture-level protection in 1988, villagers told the newspaper.
In 2007, the Dali government started a project to extend state road No. 214 to Shangguan Village which is above the hill where Longshuo Pass stands.
The cultural authority suggested a road route 50 meters away from the historic remains, but the builder went straight through the site, villagers said.
The builder damaged 12,350 square meters of the site, they said.
"It has damaged the complete history of Dali," complained Shen Kangsheng, Shangguan Village's director.
The builder also used explosives to pull down some remains and that had loosened the hill under the village and risked the village's security, according to villager Hu Xueshu, Shangguan's geological monitor.
Villagers complained to the cultural authority to stop the road project but all in vain, he added.
Dali Transport Bureau's Party secretary Zhao Yongchao described the damage as "inevitable,: citing the local geological conditions.
Zhao told China Youth Daily the transport bureau had paid 2.24 million yuan (US$328,000) to the cultural authority for archeological research on the pass site in compensation.
He stressed the new road is a backbone of Yunnan's road network and the project must progress.
Residents said the road can be re-routed to avoid Longshou Pass in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, but the road builder said the local geological and technological conditions forced them to cut through the pass site, today's China Youth Daily reported.
Longshou Pass used to be the only entrance to north Dali with five city walls and five city gates as well as military facilities. The remnants were listed for prefecture-level protection in 1988, villagers told the newspaper.
In 2007, the Dali government started a project to extend state road No. 214 to Shangguan Village which is above the hill where Longshuo Pass stands.
The cultural authority suggested a road route 50 meters away from the historic remains, but the builder went straight through the site, villagers said.
The builder damaged 12,350 square meters of the site, they said.
"It has damaged the complete history of Dali," complained Shen Kangsheng, Shangguan Village's director.
The builder also used explosives to pull down some remains and that had loosened the hill under the village and risked the village's security, according to villager Hu Xueshu, Shangguan's geological monitor.
Villagers complained to the cultural authority to stop the road project but all in vain, he added.
Dali Transport Bureau's Party secretary Zhao Yongchao described the damage as "inevitable,: citing the local geological conditions.
Zhao told China Youth Daily the transport bureau had paid 2.24 million yuan (US$328,000) to the cultural authority for archeological research on the pass site in compensation.
He stressed the new road is a backbone of Yunnan's road network and the project must progress.
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