Feel the urge to leave your number on the Great wall of China? Go for it

A section of the Great Wall of China is being set aside for graffiti, in the hope that this will reduce the extent of scrawlings elsewhere. Tourists who visit one of the world’s most famous attractions have been leaving their mark quite literally by etching their names into the ancient stone. Foreign visitors are to blame for most of the scratchings, according to Chinese news reports, with the No. 5 Fighting Tower a popular spot for comments scrawled in English. But now a section of the wall in the popular area of Mutianyu, in the No. 14 Fighting Tower building, has been selected for the graffiti zone, China Daily reported. It quoted a director of the administration office at Mutianyu, which is 70km northeast of Beijing, who said it was because “many tourists like to carve words on buildings.”