Local government efforts to preserve a seven-century-old stretch of China’s Great Wall have been roundly pilloried after pictures of the smooth cement “restoration” job surfaced on social media.

BEIJING — Chinese officials are being pilloried over the smoothing-over of a crumbling but much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great ... restoration plan. “It really was an ugly repair job ...

Chinese officials are being pilloried over the smoothing-over of a crumbling but much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great ... restoration plan. “It really was an ugly repair job,” Ding ...