Hushan Wall


The Hushan or Tiger Mountain Great Wall, known to Koreans as Bakjak Fortress, is a wall in China. The wall runs for about 1,200 metres over Hushan.
The wall starts 15 km northeast of Dandong city, directly beside the China–North Korea border. It then climbs steeply up to a height of 146.3 metres before descending on the other side of Hushan and finishing at a car park. Historically, Dandong was a settlement established to protect the Chinese heartland during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
The identification of Hushan as the eastern terminus of the Great Wall in 2009 was met with skepticism by Korean academia. Professor Kwon Hee-young alleges that the Chinese renamed it from Bakjak to Hushan, then rebuilt the fortress and identified it with the Great Wall as part of the Northeast Project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences that aimed to diminish local traces of the Goguryeo Kingdom, which Koreans consider to have first built Bakjak. Qin dynasty relics have been discovered at the Great Wall in south Chifeng, to the west of Dandong.