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长城到底有多长?

In June, the survey was complete, and the figure was 21,196 kilometers…I called some of my wall-researching colleagues. They also felt a little bit confused, so we kind of put our heads together. The 21,196 is a measurement of all the visible Great Walls on the land of China as they stand now. That takes into account scant remains, which would be ankle-high, to grand things that you do want to take a photograph of and explore. And then if we subtract 8,851, the length of Ming wall, we get 12,345 as the length of the pre-Ming walls.

当年6月，勘测结束，结果是21,196公里……我打电话给我研究长城的同事，通报了这一结果。他们也感到有些不解，所以我们集思广益，认为21,196公里是中国大地上现存所有可见的长城遗迹的总长度。这包括那些很不起眼的遗迹，可能只有脚踝那么高，也包括那些你想拍下来并探索一番的宏伟城。然后如果减去8,851公里，即明长城的长度，那么明以前历代所建长城的长度就是12,345公里。

Is that the final answer?

《华尔街日报》：这是最终的答案吗？

Well, it's actually created more confusion around the world and soured some international relations, because despite talking to several journalists and giving them the insights, most of the headlines in the following week were along the lines of 'Great Wall Found to Be Twice the Length Originally Thought,' which is not at all the case.