According to China Daily:
Foreign leaders with travel plans to scale the Great Wall might be excited about the Mutianyu section’s plan to open up an additional 500 m next year.
“The main renovation and construction of the 502-m section is mostly complete now, but the monitoring system still needs to be installed,” Yang Kaihuai, general manager of Mutianyu Great Wall Travel Service Corporate told Beijing Youth Daily on Monday.
“Based on the current progress, we are hopeful the section can open next year,” he said. “But the timetable is subject to change,” he added, without saying why. [...]
And the 502 m extension is only the first phase of a much larger renovation plan.
Jia Ruicheng, the chief engineer in charge of the project, said they hope to add another 2.4 km to the current 3 km in total.
“This 2.4-km stretch, which includes five new watchtowers, is more beautiful than the section already open to the public,” said Jia, who has worked for Mutianyu since 1983.
One of the local farmers and guesthouse owner added:
The adventurers and photographers usually come here and climb the walls because they haven’t been renovated. Perhaps they will lose interest now
They most likely will when it comes to this part of the wall, but I guest this is not the kind for tourists the local government hope to attract anyway.