Located 160 km southeast of Yumen Pass, Jiayu Pass marks the western end of the Ming Great Wall. Nearly 80 percent of the ...

Photographer Cheng Dalin has been documenting the wall for 30 years and is a leading authority on the structure. Smoke signals from towers like those at Jinshanling, says Cheng, conveyed threats ...

America's business giants are starting to lose faith in their old friend Xi Jinping. The strongest tie between the US and China is unraveling. For decades, Wall Street and corporate America have ...

Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in Dunhuang SUN ZHIJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY/TONG YUNSHAN/CHINA DAILY Nowhere in the Hexi Corridor does a traveler feel closer to those ...

It pushes back the estimated origins of the wall, which is one of the largest manmade structures on Earth, by 300 years. The ...

Some sections of Great Wall of China in Shandong Province are 300 years older than previously believed, according to recent excavations. Those ancient sections date back to the late Zhou Dynasty ...

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming ...

Just north of Beijing, you'll find one of the most famous monuments in the world: the Great Wall of China. Although it's unlikely you'll see the whole thing, you should aim to experience a portion ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site. Millions of people converge on Xi ...

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for the first time, from children to adults, from the general tourists to scholars,” says Henry Ng, the manager of the World Monuments Fund’s ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...