This is the story of China's great green wall—a belt of green, defiant trees encircling the Taklamakan Desert in China, and the incredible 46-year effort to achieve this feat. Located in the ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

"The Great Wall impresses everyone who sees it for the first time, from children to adults, from the general tourists to scholars,” says Henry Ng, the manager of the World Monuments Fund’s ...

Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in Dunhuang SUN ZHIJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY/TONG YUNSHAN/CHINA DAILY Nowhere in the Hexi Corridor does a traveler feel closer to those ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new find is part of the larger oldest part of the ...

With 30 million hectares of land already wrapped in green, China’s Great Green Wall is yet to slow down the growing ...

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Smart machines and drones turn the desert into a forest, boosting China’s struggle against desertification and sand storms In this spring, the challenging task of reforestation on the edge ...

The Government of China requested the World Heritage Centre to undertake a mission to evaluate the state of conservation of five cultural World Heritage sites. The Great Wall, which is over 50,000 km.

Researchers from the Han and Ming Great Wall conservation and research center of Shandan county, Zhangye, Gansu province, gather data at the site in June last year. [PHOTO BY WANG JIANG/FOR CHINA ...

This spring, the challenging task of afforestation at the edge of the Mu Us Desert in northern China takes on a futuristic feel ... expanding the "green Great Wall." According to Ma Qiang, deputy ...