WMF and the Endangered Great Wall

In November 2000, a joint application was made by William Lindesay and the Beijing Bureau for Cultural Relics to the US-based World Monuments Fund (WMF) to have the Cultural Landscape of the Great Wall, Beijing listed on the Fund's "2002 List of the World's Most 100 Endangered Sites".

This filing of the application was regarded as a success and an expression of mutual confidence between the collaborators of the application, as well as an acknowledgement that the task of preserving the Great Wall is an enormous challenge which requires international efforts.

On October 11, 2001, the World Monuments Fund published its 2002 list which indeed included the "Cultural Landscape of the Great Wall, Beijing".

In February 2002 Mr. Henry Ng Executive Vice President of World Monuments Fund visited Huanghuacheng Great Wall with Mr.Liu Chang representative for WMF from Institute of Conservation, School of Archtecture, Tsinghua University.(see photo, left)

John Stubbs, vice president of WMF , Herry Ng, executive vice president of WMF and US conservation specialists visited the Huanghuacheng site under the guidance of William Lindesay in June 2002 (see photo, left)

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