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Kaiping
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Kaiping is a county-level city in Guangdong Province. It is located in the Pearl River Delta and is part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. As of 2018, its population was 680,000, and it covers an area of 1,659 square kilometers. During the Qing Dynasty, Kaiping County became part of Zhaoqing. It was upgraded to a county-level city in 1993. The area is the ancestral home of many overseas Chinese, especially those in the United States. The locals speak a different dialect of Taishan. Kaiping has always been a major hub for overseas migration and a melting pot of ideas and trends brought by overseas Chinese. Therefore, several watchtowers combine Chinese and Western architectural features. Speaking of Kaiping watchtowers, they are fortified multi-story towers built in the early Qing Dynasty in the Kaiping area, reaching their peak in the 1920s and 1930s, when there were more than three thousand such buildings. To this day, about 1,800 watchtowers still stand tall. The watchtowers serve two purposes: residence and defense against bandit attacks.
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