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Great Wall future more secure

BEIJING - Mongol hordes, Japanese soldiers and Red Guards -- China's Great Wall has seen them all off in its more than 2,000-year history.

Today, tourists, ravers and newly rich Beijingers on weekend jaunts are pounding parts of the wall to dust.

But a new law which came into effect on December 1, has left one campaigner hopeful about the wall's future.

"I'm optimistic about this century. The next 30 years are going to be a period where destruction of the wall is going to be much, much less," said William Lindesay, founder and director of International Friends of the Great Wall.

"I've seen more sites being reconstructed in an authentic way, and also I've discovered hope with local people and also determination amongst local officials," he told the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Beijing on Friday.

"They've realized that people come to C