China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping told Xinhua Thursday of its plans to create a three-dimensional digital version of the surviving sections of the Great Wall. Details of the total accurate length of the surviving sections will be announced at a later date, but the bureau said that this digital version will be constructed from data obtained through a near-finished photographic mapping of the sections in nine provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in northern China.
The Great Wall was originally built by China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang (259-210 B.C.), who also built the Terra Cotta Warriors in his grand tomb in Xian, but most of the surviving walls that are visited today were built about 600 years ago the Ming Dynasty.
Two of the most famous and widely visited sections of the Great Wall around Beijing, Mutianyu and Badaling, are among many other Ming Dynasty portions that remain today.
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