Restored or rebuilt Great Wall sections

[Bryan]

These are the Ming Dynasty Great Wall areas that have been rebuilt or restored. They are arranged in an approximate east to west order. Note that while all of these areas are officially open to tourists, there are other areas that have had no rebuilding done that are also officially open.

Hushan

Location: Dandong, Liaoning
GPS coordinates: 40°7'N, 124°23'E
Length: 1.2 kilometers, 0.8 miles
Date: unknown (2005-2006?)

Laolongtou

Location: Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 39°58'1"N 119°47'42"E
Length: 1.5 kilometers, 1 mile
Date: 1984

Dongluochengguan

Location: Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 40°0'38.44"N 119°45'23.45"E
Length: -
Date: unknown

Jiaoshan

Location: Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 40°1'58"N 119°44'8"E
Length: 0.6 kilometers, 0.4 miles
Date: unknown

Jiumenkou

Location: Suizhong, Liaoning
GPS coordinates: 40°7'3"N 119°44'39"E
Length: 1 kilometer, 0.6 miles
Date: 1994

Lengkou

Location: Qinhuangdao, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 40°10'19.92"N 118°50'6.96"E
Length: South gate rebuilt
Date: unknown

Hongyukou

Location: Qianan, Tangshan, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 40°15'4"N 118°37'48"E
Length: 0.9 kilometers, 0.6 miles
Date: before 2005

Nianyushiguan

Location: Tangshan, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 40°13'50.50"N 117°43'56.80"E
Length: 60 meters, 200 feet
Date: unknown
Description: Wall at the east side of the lake is rebuilt

Huangyaguan / Taipingzhai

Location: Tianjin
GPS coordinates: 40°14'32"N 117°26'22"E
Length: 3.7 kilometers, 2.4 miles
Date: 1987

Simatai

Location: Miyun, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°39'28"N 117°17'7"E
Length: 3 kilometers, 1.9 miles
Date: 1987 and again in 2010-?

Jinshanling

Location: Miyun, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°41'0"N 117°14'10"E
Length: 2.2 kilometers, 1.4 miles
Date: 1985-1987

Gubeikou

Location: Miyun, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°41'5"N 117°9'38"E
Length: 1 pass
Date: 2004

Mutianyu

Location: Huairou, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°26'17"N 116°33'43"E
Length: 2.9 kilometers, 1.8 miles
Date: 1983-1984, 2009

Xiangshuihu

Location: Huairou, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°27'34"N 116°27'13"E
Length: 0.4 kilometers, 0.3 miles
Date: unknown (2007?)

Huanghuacheng

Location: Huairou, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°25'1"N 116°20'20"E
Length: 3.1 kilometers, 1.9 miles
Date: 2005

Juyongguan

Location: Yanqing, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°17'17"N 116°4'7"E
Length: 4.1 kilometers, 2.5 miles
Date: 1993-1997

Shuiguan

Location: Yanqing, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°20'14"N 116°1'54"E
Length: 1.1 kilometers, 0.7 miles
Date: unknown

Badaling

Location: Yanqing, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°21'16"N 116°0'23"E
Length: 8.7 kilometers, 5.4 miles
Date: 1957 through 2009
Description: Badaling was the first Great Wall section to be rebuilt. The work was done in several phases, beginning in 1957. It was rebuilt to a very high standard, probably better than when it was originally constructed. Further reconstruction is currently underway towards the west.

Shixiaguan

Location: Yanqing, Beijing
GPS coordinates: 40°18'38"N 115°56'33"E
Length: 1 kilometer, 0.6 miles
Date: 2000

Zijingguan

Location: Baoding, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 39°25'12"N 115°9'50"E
Length: unknown
Date: 2006

Dajingmen

Location: Zhangjiakou, Hebei
GPS coordinates: 40°50'39.98"N 114°53'9.52"E
Length: unknown
Date: unknown

Niangziguan

Location: Shanxi
GPS coordinates: 37°58'1.30"N 113°52'39.48"E
Length: unknown
Date: unknown

Guguan

Location: Shanxi
GPS coordinates: 37°53'35.80"N 113°54'17.80"E
Length: unknown
Date: unknown

Zhenbeitai

Location: Yulin, Shaanxi
GPS coordinates: 38°20'23"N 109°43'45"E
Length: One fortress
Date: unknown

Shiguanxia

Location: Jiayuguan, Gansu
GPS coordinates: 39°50'59"N 98°10'46"E
Length: 0.7 kilometers, 0.4 miles
Date: 2002

Xuanbi

Location: Jiayuguan, Gansu
GPS coordinates: 39°51'6"N 98°10'35"E
Length: 0.7 kilometers, 0.5 miles
Date: 1987

Jiayuguan Fort

Location: Jiayuguan, Gansu
GPS coordinates: 39°48'5"N 98°12'58"E
Length: One fortress
Date: 1987

Total length of all Great Walls rebuilt since the Ming Dynasty: 40 kilometers, 25 miles

Rebuilding the Huanghuacheng Great Wall in 2005

Any missing information (unknown rebuild dates or missing locations) highly appreciated!

[Kim]

Some missing areas:

Lengkou (40°10'19.92"N 118°50'6.96"E): south gate rebuild

Nianyushiguan (40°13'48.79"N 117°43'46.67"E): wall at the east side of the lake is rebuild.

Dajingmen (40°50'39.98"N 114°53'9.52"E): partly rebuild

Niangziguan (37°58'1.30"N 113°52'39.48"E): rebuild

Guguan (37°53'35.80"N 113°54'17.80"E): partly rebuild

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by Kim

Some missing areas:

Lengkou (40°10'19.92"N 118°50'6.96"E): south gate rebuild

Nianyushiguan (40°13'48.79"N 117°43'46.67"E): wall at the east side of the lake is rebuild.

Dajingmen (40°50'39.98"N 114°53'9.52"E): partly rebuild

Niangziguan (37°58'1.30"N 113°52'39.48"E): rebuild

Guguan (37°53'35.80"N 113°54'17.80"E): partly rebuild

Thank you, Kim!

That reminds me that Zijingguan had some work done too. I believe it was in 2006.

[Kim]

Part of the Qi wall in Shandong is also repaired: 36°28'54.81"N 117°49'56.56"E

[andarchen]

Hongyukou
Location: qianan, Heibei
GPS coordinates: 40°15'3.40"N 118°37'47.34"E
Length: 0.9 kilometers,
Date: before 2005

Hongyukou pass photo

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by andarchen

Hongyukou
Location: qianan, Heibei
GPS coordinates: 40°15'3.40"N 118°37'47.34"E
Length: 0.9 kilometers,
Date: before 2005

Well, isn't that interesting? Thanks very much for this information. A very interesting location in the middle of a very long gap in our map between Baiyangyu and Qingshanguan. I am going to add a sub-forum for this location.

It happens to be in a high-resolution area of Google Earth imagery and can be clearly seen.

I did a little bit of research and found this sad story.

Over the last two years a number of renovation projects along the Great Wall have attempted to undo some of the damage the wall continues to sustain. In late 2003 a survey team was stunned to find that real estate developers had opened a 14-meter-long breach at the undeveloped Hongyukou section of the Ming dynasty Great Wall in Hebei province not far from the site of the Qing dynasty Eastern Tombs at Dongling, and had also faced and repaired two sections of the original ramparts with cement. The development was part of the planned Hongyu Villa project of Qian'an City and Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County. Conservationists also discovered that ancient bricks removed from the Great Wall rampart had been discarded, while the inscriptions and stone cannons formerly preserved in the wall, had disappeared. The ugly landscaping and unsightly car-parks built by the developers, but not mentioned in Chinese media reports, created a devastating overall effect. Fined RMB 100,000 yuan (USD 12,000) for the damage to the Great Wall, the investor Zhou Wen argued that he was repairing the Wall and protecting it from further deterioration, but Hao Sanjin and Dong Yaohui of the Great Wall Society of China pointed out that Zhou's improper repairs at one of the best preserved sections of the Ming wall constitute a form of destruction. An investigation showed that the project was unauthorised by any cultural relic departments, and the work unit was not qualified to undertake any construction on ancient buildings. Ironically, a cultural relics protection centre had been established in Qinglong county in 1982 to protect the 184-km Great Wall in the region. With 2,000 yuan of operating funds each year, the three staff of the centre claim that they could not afford to do any real work, but clearly they were complicit in the destruction wrought by the Hongyu Villa project. In accordance with the relevant regulations on cultural relics protection and their own job descriptions, any work that might impinge on the Great Wall should have been reported to the State Bureau of Cultural Relics for approval.

Full article here

[andarchen]

The sad story with the photo i posted present clearly how the Great Wall is being proteced .

[FreddyMusic]

Repair or rebuilt of Great Wall is losing the function as military defence engineering.
However, Great Wall has too much meaning for Chinese and the people world-wide come to China.
If I manage the Great Wall, I perfer commerical operation with long-term maintance for tourist. Good business.

[chinoook]

Another terrifying example for Great Wall restoration in Ningxia:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20126614

at 37°26'59.22"N 104°58'47.65"E


-chinoook

[Kim]

Originally Posted by chinoook

Another terrifying example for Great Wall restoration in Ningxia:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20126614

at 37°26'59.22"N 104°58'47.65"E


-chinoook

I remember passing that one while driving from Ningxia to Gansu - looked terrible