Photo taken on May 23, 2018 shows workers pulling up weeds as authorities of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) start a preservation project on the Yuanyingguan and Dashuifa ruins. The work will continue for 120 days to protect these two sites from collapse. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was a complex of royal palaces and gardens. The complex suffered extensive looting and destruction at the hands of French and British troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Nan)
Photo taken on May 23, 2018 shows workers pulling up weeds as authorities of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) start a preservation project on the Yuanyingguan and Dashuifa ruins. The work will continue for 120 days to protect these two sites from collapse. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was a complex of royal palaces and gardens. The complex suffered extensive looting and destruction at the hands of French and British troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Nan)
Photo taken on May 23, 2018 shows workers pulling up weeds as authorities of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) start a preservation project on the Yuanyingguan and Dashuifa ruins. The work will continue for 120 days to protect these two sites from collapse. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was a complex of royal palaces and gardens. The complex suffered extensive looting and destruction at the hands of French and British troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Nan)
Photo taken on May 23, 2018 shows workers pulling up weeds as authorities of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) start a preservation project on the Yuanyingguan and Dashuifa ruins. The work will continue for 120 days to protect these two sites from collapse. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was a complex of royal palaces and gardens. The complex suffered extensive looting and destruction at the hands of French and British troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Nan)
Photo taken on May 23, 2018 shows workers pulling up weeds as authorities of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) start a preservation project on the Yuanyingguan and Dashuifa ruins. The work will continue for 120 days to protect these two sites from collapse. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was a complex of royal palaces and gardens. The complex suffered extensive looting and destruction at the hands of French and British troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Nan)
Photo taken on May 23, 2018 shows workers pulling up weeds as authorities of the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) start a preservation project on the Yuanyingguan and Dashuifa ruins. The work will continue for 120 days to protect these two sites from collapse. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was a complex of royal palaces and gardens. The complex suffered extensive looting and destruction at the hands of French and British troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Nan)
