Great Wall at Jinshanling Closed for
Major Repairs and Facility Improvement
Beijing, June 1, 2017
Great Wall Adventure Club receives an
official announcement that the Jinshanling
section of the Great Wall will be closed from today for a major
improvement of the facilities to accommodate the rise of visitors. The
announcement was issued by the Great Wall Administration Office of
Jinshanling, the office that manages the tour reception and development
of Jinshanling Great Wall park.
This is a temporary closure for the
construction. The site will be reopened on August 15, 2017.
According to Guo, the director of the
Office, the overall improvement was initiated by the Luanping County
Government who oversees the business of tourist attractions in the
county. The county government worries the less-developed facilities in
Jinshanling park such as the hotels, road condition, etc. create
difficulties to attract worldwide visitors, especially the domestic
Chinese visitors, when compared to its nextdoor section of the Great
Wall at Simatai who has significantly benefited from the notorious
project of "Gubei Watertown a few years ago with return of tons of
revenue from the local tour traffic.
The "Gubei Watertown" project built a
chain Chinese southern style concrete watertown that conflicts against
the true lifestyle of northern China historically. The fake watertown
project occupies Simatai and bans the entry
for hikers to Simatai without
purchasing the expensive admission to the watertown first. The Simatai
has been kidnapped and forced to be a tool for the watertown to make
money. The developer has also blocked the access to Simatai from
Jinshanling by hiking through the Great Wall. The zip-line at Simatai,
which used to be a top-10 ziplines int he world was also tore down. The
section was closed for a sudden with the speculation of internal trade
of interests. Great Wall Adventure Club's famous
Jinshanling-Simatai day
hike was also forced to end.
The Great Wall Administration Office of
Jinshanling is an official partner of the Great Wall Adventure Club. It
hasn't published a date of the completion of the project because the
county government had made the decision to proceed without an open
discussion.
Great Wall Adventure Club has made
necessary alterations for its
Gubeikou-Jinshanling
and Jinshanling-West Simatai
hikes.
Map of Jinshanling
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