In the northern part of the vast land of China there lies the Great Wall which stretches from east to west, winding over mountains, across grasslands and through deserts in numerous twists and turns. Spanning a total of 5,660 kilometers, it starts from the banks of the Yalu River in the east and meanders toward the Qilian and Tianshan Mountains in the west. Its gigantic proportions of construction, long history and great magnificencehave made it known throughtout the world and brought it the reputation as one of the world's seven wonders in the madievel times. Morever, as the American astronaut Neil Armstrong who manned the spacecraft "Apollo" put it, the Great Wall is one of the two construction projects on the earth that can be seen clearly from space. While the United Nations named it one of the world's cultural heritages in 1987, the imposing Great Wall has long been the symbol and soul of China.
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