Recently, our reporter went to Guyuan, Zhongwei, Yanchi and Huinong to observe and interview the ancient Great Wall in Ningxia. In Huinong County, the reporter saw that a large section of the ancient Great Wall was cut off and replaced by railways, highways and villages that passed through the city. In Yanchi County, an industrial park that is breaking ground has cut off the Great Wall, and trucks and agricultural tricycles are speeding along the gap. ...
Lei Runze, director of the Cultural Relics Bureau of the autonomous region, pointed out that the destruction of the ancient Great Wall site was of course caused by natural erosion, but man-made destruction was more destructive. He said that due to the poor awareness of cultural relics protection in some places, in the process of large-scale infrastructure construction, incidents of destroying cities have occurred from time to time. Due to the serious shortage of manpower and financial resources in the cultural relics protection department of the autonomous region, it is unable to protect the scattered and far-reaching ancient Great Wall. Its work is limited to surveying the preservation of sites, delineating the scope of protection and setting up protection signs, with little effect.
A curator of a museum told reporters that the Great Wall was protected not because of the high archaeological value of the old Great Wall, but because China people have a special feeling for the Great Wall. Protecting the Great Wall is to keep people's pride.
However, the word "pride" is not enough for the protection of the Great Wall. Some people have seen the tourism value of the ancient Great Wall in Ningxia, and perhaps the development-oriented protection is the hope of the ancient Great Wall in Ningxia. But this requires huge financial resources. Can we do that? How many Great Walls will we "lose" before this day comes? (MCA)