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A search on the UNESCO World Heritage doesn't bring forward any special reference to this section of the Great Wall. Is there any source for this statement? --Jo (talk) 22:58, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To be more precise:

The article Bruce G. Doar: The Great Wall of China:Tangible, Intangible and Destructible. China Heritage Newsletter, China Heritage Project, Australian National University, says:

The elusive nature of the Great Wall is no better demonstrated than by the fact that while the Chinese media often state that the Great Wall is a UNESCO-listed World Heritage site, UNESCO in 1987 in fact listed several sites separately – Badaling (the section of the wall in Beijing best known to tourists, see Fig. 1), Shanhaiguan (the eastern "end" of the Ming wall near Qinhuangdao adjoining the coast in Hebei province, see Fig. 2) and Jiayuguan (the complex at the western end of the Ming wall in remote Gansu province, see Fig. 3). In November 2002 a section of the Ming Great Wall at Jiumenkou built on a riverbed in north-eastern China's Liaoning province was also listed by UNESCO. The 1,704-meter Jiumenkou wall section located in Xintaizi village, Suizhong county, crosses a 100-meter wide river, where the wall takes on the characteristics of a stone bridge comprising a battery of eight piers and nine sluice gates. Built in 1381, the Jiumenkou section has undergone several major repairs and renovations. The Great Wall section at Jiumenkou became the 27th site in China to be listed by UNESCO.

So there seems to be no explicit listing of the Simatai section as UNESCO World Heritage, or I was not able to find it. --Jo (talk) 10:09, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]