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Administration Administratively, Kaiping City is under the jurisdiction of Jiangmen. It was set up as a city in 1993. Geography Kaiping City is located 140 km away from Guangzhou, in the southwestern part of the Pearl River Delta. Kaiping consists of three port cities: Changsha, Xinchang, and Dihai. Sights The diaolou (碉樓) are fortified multi-storey towers, which were constructed in the Kaiping area from the early Qing Dynasty, reaching a peak in the 1920s and 1930s, when there were more than three thousand of these structures. Today, approximately 1,800 diaolou are still standing. The diaolouserved two purposes: housing and protecting against forays by bandits. Kaiping has traditionally been a region of major emigration abroad, and a melting pot of ideas and trends brought back by overseas Chinese made good. As a consequence, several watchtowers incorporate architectural features from China and the West. Examples include: Miscellaneous Kaiping has been twinned with Mesa, Arizona, United States, since October 18, 1993. | ||||||||||
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