China’s Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang, who wanted a shortcut.
Authorities in China arrested two people for smashing a path through a section of the ancient wall, a cultural icon and United Nations protected heritage site.
The area of the breach was a broken-down section far from the restored segments most Chinese and foreign tourists are familiar with.
The government of Youyu County, hundreds of kilometres west of Beijing, identified a dirt road cut through a section of the wall against a rural landscape, along with the
