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Govt regains operating rights of Badaling Great Wall

www.chinanews.cn 2006-04-07 16:10:51

Chinanews, Apr. 7 - Beijing Daily reported that after nearly three years
of negotiation, the operating rights of Badaling Great Wall, which used
to be in control of three units, finally returned to the Chinese
government which has already constituted measures for the administration
of this segment of the Great Wall. Furthermore, the face-lifting plan of
the Great Wall is being drafted. The 7,600-odd-meter-long Badaling Great
Wall is expected to complete the renovation project by 2008.
The Badaling Great Wall is a cultural heritage of the world and a
cultural relic protection unit of China, yet it got listed as a whole as
a company's operating assets. This management system existed before the
implementation of the "Cultural Relic Protection Law" revised in 2002 and
the "Measures of Beijing Municipality for the Protection of the Great
Wall". While the two statutes clearly point out that no units or
individuals are allowed to transfer, mortgage or turn the Great Wall into
stocks and operate as corporate assets.
In order to solve this issue, the government commenced a three-year
negotiation in 2003 and recently, the 7,600-odd-meter-long Badaling Great
Wall was eventually taken back by the state, with the operating rights
returned from the listed company to the Badaling special region-based
office. According to relevant specialists from the China Great Wall
Association, the government's regaining operating rights of the Badaling
Great Wall serves as a model for other cultural relic protection units to
act based on the "Cultural Relic Protection Law".
The Badaling Great Wall opens a 3,741-meter section to tourists, and the
section is always under special supervision. Another part of nearly 3,000
meters remains unopened. "We will exert more efforts to protect the
unopened Great Wall," indicated an official of Yanqing County's cultural
committee. The application for protection funds involved three companies
in the past, but now the government retrieved all operating rights and is
able to protect the Badaling Great Wall with more focus. All income from
entrance tickets will be used to protect the Badaling Great Wall in the
future.

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