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	Badaling Great Wall, Beijing, China (75 photos)
		Badaling Great Wall is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately 70 kilometers northwest of Beijing within the Beijing municipality.
		Badaling Great Wall was constructed during the Ming Dynasty around 1505, together with a military outpost reflecting the location's strategic importance.
		Badaling Great Wall has been carefully restored, and in 1957 it was the first section of the Great Wall to open officially to tourists.
	www.kinabaloo.com /badaling_great_wall.html (763 words)

	Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the earliest expressways nationwide was the Jingshi Expressway between Beijing and Shijiazhuang in Hebei province.
		Expressways in China are signposted in both Simplified Chinese and English (except for parts of the Jingshi Expressway, which relies fully on Chinese characters).
		Expressway construction has also been one of the rare instances in which the Communist Party of China and the State Council has had to back down on a major policy initiative.
	www.gatorsports.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki&text=expressways_of_China (2120 words)

	The Great Wall of China : The Great Wall, Beijing (300 photos)
		Badaling Great Wall offers awesome views, but it can also be the most crowded (near the entrance), especially at weekends or on national holidays, because it is the most commonly visited by tour groups.
		Badaling Fortress, at an elevation of 600 m, was built in 1505.
		Higher than BaDaLing, running along a precipitous mountain ridge, and with the extra beauty of being in a weathered, partly crumbled state, the Great Wall at SiMaTai fulfills one's Great Wall dreams and so is well worth the journey.
	www.kinabaloo.com /great_wall_beijing.html (1918 words)

	The Great Wall of China
		The Badaling section of the Great Wall lies in Yanqing County, northwest of Beijing This section of the Great Wall is perhaps the best known, and visited by countless foreign travelers.
		Badaling section is a well-preserved part of the Ming Great Wall; at this point, the wall averages 7.8 meters high, 6.5 meters wide at the base and 5.8 meters at the top.
		The Badaling Section of the wall is the site of the most visited section, approximately 50 miles northwest of Beijing city within the Beijing municipality.
	www.travel-the-real-china.com /the-great-wall-of-china.html (1828 words)

	Heavy-load Truck Ban Causes Huge City Jams
		's Badaling Expressway because of a string of fatal accidents saw huge jams on a neighboring national highway yesterday.
		Design loopholes and pervasive overloads of lorries are blamed as the cause of frequent accidents on Badaling Expressway, said Mayor Wang Qishan, at a meeting on Monday.
		The original design of the expressway was for the use of tourism vehicles traveling between the capital's downtown and the Great Wall, said He Yong, a researcher with the road safety institute under the Ministry of Communications.
	www.china.org.cn /english/Life/151851.htm (353 words)

	Badaling Expressway - China-related Topics BA-BD - China-Related Topics
		Gōngl?) is an expressway in China which links Beijing to the Badaling stretch of the Great Wall of China.
		The Badaling Expressway runs within the confines of the municipality of Beijing.
		After Badaling, the expressway links with a sub-expressway route to Yanqing county before leaving Beijing municipality altogether at Kangzhuang.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Badaling_Expressway (1641 words)

	China Corner - Traditional Chinese Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Badaling section of the Great Wall most frequented by visitors dates from the Ming Dynasty, Constructed of large blocks of granite and bricks, the wall at this point is 6.6 meters high and 6.5 meters wide at its base, narrowing to 5.5 meters on the rampart.
		The "second Badaling" is located to the northeast of Beijing proper and can be reached by bus in approximately two hours.
		According to historical records, the construction of this part of the wall was begun in 1571, and is part of the 1,000-kilometer-long section of the wall between the Shanhai Pass in the east and Changping County in the west, which was the result of cooperation between two famous Ming generals, Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun.
	www.china-corner.com /culturaltravel/greatwall.asp (2004 words)

	Beijing - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Nine expressways of China (with six wholly new expressways under projection or construction) connect with Beijing, as do eleven China National Highways.
		Recently expressways have been extended (in some cases reconstructed as express routes) into the territories within the 3rd Ring Road.
		It is linked to central Beijing by the Airport Expressway and is a roughly 40-minute drive from the city centre during good traffic hours.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/e/i/Beijing.html (5730 words)

	Trucks Bottled up in Three-day Traffic Jam
		Prompted by a Monday ban on heavy-load trucks using Beijing's Badaling Expressway, trucks carrying weights of more than 2 tons and using the expressway were required to change their routes to the highway.
		The Beijing municipal government was alarmed by an accident on the Badaling Expressway earlier this month, when 24 passengers were killed in a collision with a lorry at a site near a notorious area called "Death Valley."
		Monday, Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan attributed pervasive overloads of lorries to the frequent accidents on Badaling Expressway.
	www.china.org.cn /english/China/152228.htm (599 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Beijing is one of the largest cities in China, second only to Shanghai as the nation's biggest in terms of population.
		It is also a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways connecting the capital city in all directions.
		It is linked into central Beijing the Airport Expressway and is a roughly 40-minute drive from the city centre during good traffic hours.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Beijing.html.html (3498 words)

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		In China, the company is set to cooperate with a local integrator to equip the Badaling Expressway â“ one of the most crucial arterial roads in the Peking (Beijing) region â“ with an Electronic Toll Collection system.
		The Expressway is one of the most crucial arterial roads in the Peking (Beijing) region, leading amongst other things to the Great Wall of China.
		This is why the Badaling Expressway is a zone with particularly heavy traffic and with steadily rising revenue.
	www.kapsch.net /kag/en/12635_ENU_HTMLExtranetCDEn.htm (744 words)

	Beijing expressway limits overloaded vehicles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Overloaded vehicles and heavy trucks have been banned from the Badaling Expressway following a tragic accident that killed 24 people on Dec. 5.
		Trucks with loads of more than five tons have been forbidden from using the expressway since Dec. 12.
		Wang said more than 10,000 overloaded trucks have been not permitted to enter the Badaling Expressway.
	en.ce.cn /National/Local/200512/15/t20051215_5531501.shtml (165 words)

	SnapshotJourneys.com \| Travel Photos China Badaling The Great Wall
		The nearest access from Beijing is at Badaling, only 50 kms/31 miles by expressway north of the city.
		The Badaling Expressway runs northwest from Beijing about 50 kilometres/31 miles to this section of the Wall.
		Tours to Badaling may be part of a full-day tour that also includes other attractions like the nearby Ming Tombs, the Temple of Heaven, and factory tours and demonstrations by artisans in jade, pearls and cloissonné.
	www.snapshotjourneys.com /greatwall.html (1263 words)

	The Great Walk to the Great Wall I
		We made it out of the city in fine style, and onto the new Badaling Expressway (designed to get busy tourists in the New China to the Wall with a minimum of fuss and bother).
		The next thing we noticed was that the nearby hills were full of decaying fragments of the Wall, or rather Walls, for the Great Wall is actually a collection of many smaller structures that generally overlap without being connected.
		Jinghua ran to the bottom of the exit and asked a guard, who told her that Badaling was farther down the highway.
	karws.gso.uri.edu /China/Beijing/OutsideCity/GreatWalklong.html (1542 words)

	Asia Times
		Expensive projects are aiming to raise villas near sacred relic spots on the Fragrant Hills such as the Reclining Buddha Temple and the Azure Clouds Temple, both dating back to the early 14th century.
		Under assault too is the scenic Badaling section of the Great Wall where architects around the world have been invited to design innovative vacation homes, which blend in with the local scenery.
		Rose Garden, Jade Lake, Emerald Green Villas - these are just a few of the developments that skirt the Badaling expressway leading to the Great Wall, another hotspot for Beijing home buyers.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DI20Ad01.html (880 words)

	Bike China Adventures - China Bicycle Travelogues
		It is a climb however, as the builders of the Great Walls chose the mountain ridges wherever possible.
		We meet up with the Beijing-Badaling expressway, but fortunately there is a parallel local road without much traffic.
		Along the way, we catch glimpses of the Great Wall and we think we are nearing our destination, but it is the recently restored Juyong Guan section of the Great Wall.
	www.bikechina.com /bj2001psc-3.html (1048 words)

	Onchina-Yellow Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Beijing Great Wall High-Efficiency Organic Fertilizers Factory is located to the north of the "Political Capital of the Qing Dynasty" and to the south of the "Summer Capital of the Qing Dynasty".
		The famous Badalig Great Wall is winding across this area.The modernized Badaling Expressway cuts short the distance to our Capital of Beijing.
		There is an intermingled network of highways and railways in this area, which, connecting areas along both sides of the Great Wall, lead to the northwest frontiers of our country, and provide convenient facilities for the development of this enterprise.
	www.onchina.com /Eng/ypages/homepage/gwoff..html (256 words)

	The Great Wall of China, Badaling, 360-degree Virtual Tour and Great Wall Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Badaling section of the Great Wall of China is likely the most popular and therefore the most touristy and developed.
		The Badaling section of the Great Wall is 42 miles / 70 kilometres northwest of Beijing.
		Once you get outside the city and onto the expressway, the trip to Badaling is quick.
	www.thebeijingguide.com /badaling/index.html (258 words)

	Imagethief : Signs Your Number is Up on the Road to Badaling
		Twenty-four coach passengers from Hebei Province were killed and nine others injured in a traffic accident on Beijing's Badaling Expressway on Sunday evening.
		That section of the expressway is divided into two very separate highways, one north-bound, one south-bound.
		I assume that the accident happened on the south-bound section of highway somewhere between Badaling and Juyongguan.
	news.imagethief.com /blogs/china/archive/2005/12/07/5301.aspx (920 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - Goodbye China; last pictures... The Great Wall
		Here is how the wall looked at Badaling, China at apx 2:00pm Sunday local time.
		(Badaling is about a one hour drive north from my hotel in Beijing).
		I'm back down in the valley here, where the Badaling expressway meets the Great Wall, looking at the reservior and the wall climbing up the other side of the valley.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/printthread.php?t=48651 (1471 words)

	DCP: 40 degrees north, 115 degrees east (visit #2)
		Having read the first attempt, we decided to take the less scenic but much faster modern expressway where you can run at about 80 mph if you’re not afraid of large trucks around you.
		As we left the huge congested sprawl of Beijing, we took the Badaling expressway into Hebei and passed through one of the points of the Great Wall of China in the mountains.
		After leaving the expressway, we needed to turn south on local roads to get to the confluence which took us through some cities and villages along the way.
	www.confluence.org /confluence.php?visitid=8520 (1055 words)

	The Golf Courses of Beijing - CHINA TOURS TAILOR
		With an area of 100 hectares, it ia only 25 km from the Capital Airport via the Beijing -Tongzhou and Beijing-Harbin expressways, and only a 30-minute drive from the Tian'anmen Square.
		With an area of 427 hectares, the Pine Valley International Golf Club is surrounded by mountains on the three sides, with picturesque natural scenery, a quiet enviroment and fresh air.
		The golf club is adjacent to the Badaling Expressway, and is only a 30-minute drive from the city proper of Beijing.
	www.chinatourstailor.com /guide/golf/Beijing2.htm (359 words)

	China Trip Photos
		We paid a guy 500 RMB ($60) to take us to the Great Wall at Badaling.
		Badaling is about 45 minutes from downtown Beijing with the new Badaling Expressway.
		He slept in the car while we toured the wall.
	home.mchsi.com /~bojikiteboarder/gw.htm (104 words)

	Off the Great Wall \| Departures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Only a few minutes' drive past the rows of tourist buses at Badaling, however, a road leads in a different direction—to a quieter, more elegant place that lies behind a gate guarded by a man dressed in fl and wearing a red star.
		If you do not want to stay overnight, spend part of the day at Badaling looking at the Great Wall and then stop at Commune for lunch or dinner and a browse around the grounds.
		At the Great Wall Shuiguan exit, Badaling Expressway, Beijing; 86-10-8118-1888; www.commune.com.cn.
	www.departures.com /ad/ad_0504_commune.html (1897 words)

	Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Olympic preparation plans include some RMB90 billion ($10.8 billion) for various kinds of transportation improvements to the inner-city light rail system and the metro, the inner-city expressway system, and outlying high-speed expressways, as well as the accelerated completion of the city's ring road system.
		The more than 10 expressways that radiate outward from the center of Beijing are the spokes of a system that is giving rise to a dense network of transportation connection points, linking Beijing with its outlying suburban areas.
		In addition, the Bejing-Miyun Expressway, which is currently still in the planning stage, and the third phase of the Beijing- Badaling Expressway are both scheduled for completion by then.
	www.uschinabuild.org /Briefs/briefsmarch20_2002.htm (2913 words)

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