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THE GREAT WALL IN RUINS
Built some 2,000 years ago and extended and renovated
by later imperial dynasties to keep out invaders, the Great wall
is China's most famous land,ark. The latest section - discovered
in 1998 by research fellow Mu Shunying of the Xinjiang Institute
of Cultural Relics and Archaeology - could help Beijing reinforce
its claim to Xinjiang. While Eastern sections of the wall near Beijing
are made of brick, the recently found section is made of yellow
sandy stone and branches.

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