China's tourism boom hits the Wall

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The number of people going in and out of China's ports hit a record

million in the rst half of the year, a year-on-year rise of 12.07 per cent, according to a news release from the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. Statistics from the ministry's Bureau of Exit and Entry Administration revealed that 14.61 million mainland Chinese residents travelled into or out of the country in the six months of the year, up 34.12 per cent. There were a further 77.58 million travellers from the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions (SARs), an 8.6-per cent rise; 3.51 million from Taiwan, a 2.95 per cent increase; and 12.19 millions foreigners, 15.8 per cent more increase on 2001. A of 7.35 million Chinese went abroad to 226 countries and regions for

work, sightseeing, conferences and study, an increase of 33.78 per cent with last year. The 10 destinations for Chinese nationals were Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand,

Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United States, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia. Meanwhile, 6.14 million from 234 countries and regions entered China

in the rst half of the year, up 15.97 per cent. The leading 10 countries from which people entered were Japan, South

Korea, Russia, the United States, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Mongolia, Thailand and Britain. the country's 221 ports, the ve with the largest of trafc

were Luohu, Gongbei, Huanggang, Beijing Capital International Airport and Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai.

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On April 4, a total of 343,600 people entered and exited through the Luohu port in Shenzhen of South China's Guangdong Province, ports in a single day, according to the statistics. The authorities attributed this in demand to the fact that it is much , a new record among the

easier to exit and enter China because of a relaxation of the visa which was introduced to personnel exchanges. Statistics from the Ministry of Public Security indicated that, last year, more than 2.46 million mainlanders 1997. This boom has led to increased numbers of visitors at at the Great Wall. These induced of the country's most into and exited from the SARs - three times that of the increased demand for economic, cultural and

recognizable landmarks, CNN.com reports. This demand has led to negative side-effects include: increased litter, grafti, and visitor-

to many parts of the 2,470 km wall.

With the backing of Beijing's Cultural Heritage Administration and UNESCO, the U.N. cultural organization, a British citizen, William Lindesay, has founded the International Friends of the Great Wall to manage and restore the wall for enjoy. The group has plans to hire local farmers as rangers to sure bits of the wall aren't taken home or sold as up garbage and make , improve generations to

signposting at the site, and lobby the authorities to ban further developments that would tarnish the wall's natural setting. Such actions are necessary says Lindesay because already the wall "is in grave, grave danger" of over-exploitation.

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