Educate tourists to prevent vandalism

The weeklong National Day holiday is around the corner, and the expected tourism boom may also see some people vandalizing tourist sites and antiques.

Chen Zhicheng is the latest addition to the vandal list. After netizens condemned him for writing his name and poem in red paint on the cliff of a mountain in Beijing's Fangshan district, he was forced to erase them. Though he could be banned from visiting certain tourist sites, he is not the only one of his kind and unfortunately may not be the last.

In May 2013, Ding Jinhao, a middle school student from East China's Jiangsu province, carved his name on a sculpture in Luxor Temple in Egypt. And in September last year, a couple carved their names on the antique water tank in the Palace Museum. Ding apologized for his act, but the couple could not be identified and went unpunished.