Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 ...

The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

The Great Wall of China continues to fascinate the world, thousands of years after construction on the massive bulwark first began. This architectural wonder is a historic reminder of what humanity ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. Restrictions ...

One of the innumerable legends surrounding the construction of the Great Wall of China tells of a workman who estimated that he would need 99,999 bricks to construct a section of the wall now known as ...

BEIJING, Oct. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Great Wall Hero" 2025 Global Marketing Campaign, hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism and co-organized by the Changping District ...

China is attempting one of the most ambitious climate and land restoration projects on Earth, turning a swath of its arid north into a living barrier of trees to hold back encroaching sand. The ...