Long Wall of Quảng Ngãi

Nguyen Dang Vu, director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quảng Ngãi, said that parts of the wall in mountainous regions existed hundreds of years ago.

[6] In 2005, Andrew Hardy, associate professor and head[5] of the Hanoi branch of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East), which has been relocated to Paris since 1975, came upon a textual reference to a "Long Wall of Quang Ngai" in the "Descriptive Geography of the Emperor Dong Khanh," an 1885 Nguyễn dynasty court document.

An excavation crew was assembled; led by Hardy and archaeologist Nguyen Tien Dong of the Institute of Archaeology at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the team discovered the wall after five years of searching.

[1] Experts posit that the construction of the wall was the result of the work of Nguyễn dynasty soldiers[6] and collaboration between the Viet and the H're minority, who seldom had peaceful relations.

The wall runs along the "Đường cái quan thượng" (English: Upper main Mandarin's road) as it safeguards the National Route connecting the north and south Vietnam regions.

[4] Christopher Young of English Heritage said, "The Long Wall presents an enormous opportunity for research, careful conservation and sustainable use".

Establishing the wall as a tourist destination would call for government encouragement of "adventure trekking and cycling through previously isolated highland communities on an unprecedented scale", introducing historical ecotourism.

Young articulated that in the case of tourism, "income-generation opportunities" should be available for locals, since "a world heritage is not something to admire but [something] for the benefit of the people".