The wall people still walk
Thirteen point seven four kilometres of Ming brick still carry visitors above chess boards, opera speakers and morning exercise on the streets below.
The wall loops Beilin District and the old city. Provincial reporting gives its length as 13.74 kilometres and calls it the largest and most complete ancient city wall still standing in China. It sits on China's tentative World Heritage list with other Ming and Qing city walls, not among the three inscribed properties.