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One study found the Great Wall of China has deteriorated considerably over the past 100 years, and battlements are themselves now need to defend.
The series of walls and ramparts dating back to 550 BC and stretches from the Bohai Sea to the Gobi desert.
A British geographer living in Beijing, William Lindesay, is not prominent Chinese expert on the Great Wall, and says it is his passion.
In terms of the wonders of the world, you can t find anything to rival the Ming Dynasty Great Wall, he said.
It took longer to build, more people to build, consumed more building materials than anything else in human history and it will never be surpassed in scale.
But his enthusiasm is tempered by the results of his own research.
M. Lindesay took hundreds of old photos of the Great Wall - 50 years and almost 100 years - and painstakingly re-photographed exactly the same places.
The results of his study re-photographs will be published in Beijing later today.
They show large sections of the Great Wall and towers along it, completely destroyed in the last century.
Suddenly, people are realizing that the Great Wall of China needs to defend itself, he said.
In the last 50, 60 years, it is people that climbs the wall and using the material as a career - especially bricks, he said.
The most serious in recent years in the Beijing area was tourism development unmanaged and unauthorized.
Parts of the Great Wall have become crowded with tourists and souvenir sellers, such as local poor farmers trying to convert their piece of wall in the hot spot for tourism side.
The car fumes, and stores the number of pure visitors have all taken their toll on the wall, and in some places, the wall was blasted open to make way for roads.
But the Chinese government authorities have shown M. Lindesay plan Badaling - the most popular tourist place of the wall.
All shlock will be reduced to three kilometers, he said.
The parking, the market t-shirt, coffee shops and restaurants - everything will be moved back.
Using the search M. Lindsay and his Chinese counterparts, the Great Wall is being restored.
From 1 January, there are heavy fines for social functions on the ancient wall brick or steal from him.
Despite the enormous damage that has also been caused by the fighting in the Second World War, thousands of kilometers of Great Wall remain.
It is a huge structure and sometimes isolated and conservation will be a difficult task.
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