(14 Feb 2006)
1. Wide shot Juyongguan section of the Great Wall
2. Mid shot of tourists on the Great Wall
3. Close up, tilt-down from battlement of the wall, to bricks with two tourists' names carved in
4. Close up of graffiti or name of tourist carved into the brick
5. Wide shot of Great Wall with bricks carved with love slogans
6. Close up the carved Chinese character "Love"
7. Wide shot of a young couple walking on the Great Wall
8. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Chu Ran, spokesperson for Juyongguan Great Wall:
" In Great Wall, almost every brick has been carved by the tourists, it is all covered with cuts and bruises. We are trying our best to find certain ways to stop people from carving and drawing on the Great Wall, though."
9. Wide pan from mountain to worker carving on the "love wall", next to the Great Wall
10. Close shot love slogan in Chinese "True Love Throughout Whole Life" being carved
11. Wide shot of the "love wall" and a couple watching the carving work
12. Close up of the couple watching
13. Close up of the Chinese character "love" being carved
14. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zheng Xieyong (husband) and Chen Jing (wife), the first couple to get their names and love slogan carved on the wall:
"I give my wife a box of chocolate as a Valentine's gift today, but I think to come to here means more. Chocolate can be given as gift every year, but to carve our names on the wall means we will stick to each other for our whole lives."
15. Wide shot of worker carving on the wall
16. Close up of worker, pan to Chinese character being carved
17. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Chu Ran, spokesperson of Juyongguan Great Wall:
" The stretching length and solidness of the Great Wall is a perfect representation of the true love of human beings. We hope by providing this wall we can deliver our blessings to the couples in love."
18. Wide of the Great Wall, zoom in
STORYLINE:
For generations, it has been the tradition for tourists visiting the Great Wall of China to carve their declarations of love into the ancient bricks. On Tuesday, to stop "love" graffiti, the Chinese authorities in Beijing have launched the "love wall".
Chinese lovers on Tuesday carved their names and declarations of love into a "love wall" to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Officials said that the Great Wall is being seriously threatened by graffiti, after many people want to leave a permanent mark on the thousand-year-old bricks.
One section of the Great Wall Juyongguan, near Beijing now has installed a fake "wall", on the foothills of the Great Wall, so that visitors can have their names and love oaths carved this wall instead of damaging the genuine wall.
The spokesperson for the Beijing Juyongguan Great Wall, Chu Ran said they built the wall to give people a place to express their emotions - and to protect the real bricks and mortar.
In the modern day, free-market China, declarations of love aren't free. For $124 US dollars, visitors can have their names and oaths carved on a single brick on the marble "love wall" at the foot of the Great Wall.
There are 9,999 bricks available, and according to the management nearly one thousand have already been reserved.
Zheng Xieyong and Chen Jing have been married for one year and they are the first couple to get their names carved on the wall.
They said they hope their love can have the longitude and strength of the Great Wall. They hoped that in the future their children and grandchildren can come and see the evidence of their love.
Keyword-bizarre

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