After two thousand years, only 30% of the walls going through China are still remaining. For example, in the region of Yulin, the sands of the Ordos Plain are slowly covering the Ming’s section, which was replacing the First Emperor’s tracing, which was on top of the Quin’s Kingdom’s one. Today, the government is trying to protect this part of the Great Wall by afforesting it. Moreover, the sand has been removed from an undamaged alarm tower. Many earthquakes have also moved the Great Wall a few meters.

   Although it is forbidden, the Great Wall suffers from the looting of the inhabitants; but the government has a twofold policy, as they pull down whole sections of the wall to build new motorways, as it is the case in the Ningxia, Shanxi and Gansu Provinces. Mongolia does the same with the remaining parts in the Zhao Kingdom. The best and nicest stones are sold on markets, and the mortar is used as a fertiliser. In an altogether different way, a gathering of about half a thousand men in Jinshanling, has caused important vandalism. The Great Wall has also always suffered from graffiti.