Jiankou Great Wall for NBC America, 2026/05

When NBC America needed some expert assistance they called in Beijing Hikers Big Boss Sun Xiran to help take them up to the Jiankou Great Wall for a talk with the crew in charge of wall restoration.

Here’s the finished product.

You’ll see Xiran in the video version.

(Or watch it on Youtube: Tom Llamas gives a firsthand look at China’s Great Wall)

There’s more on the NBC News website, a longer article that includes photos and lot of background info on Mr Cheng, who is in charge of the restoration team.

China’s Great Wall is being restored one brick at a time

NBC News visits the monumental 13,000-mile fortifications, which are not, in fact, one contiguous structure but many segments built over several dynasties spanning about 2,000 years.

Read it on the NBC website