Kaiping Diaolou is located in Guangdong Province Jiangmen city under the jurisdiction of Kaiping City, is a special type of Chinese vernacular architecture, is a multi tower building set defense, residence and the Chinese and Western architectural art in one of the. Its characteristic is the Chinese and Western dwellings, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the Islamic style of a variety of such. According to the existing empirical, the late Kaiping Diaolou about produced in the Ming Dynasty (Sixteenth Century), by the end of the nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century developed into a unique group of architectural image China overseas Chinese history, society and culture. This kind of building large-scale, variety, unique shape, located in the city of Kaiping village.
In 2001 06 months 25 days, as an important modern historic buildings, was included in the State Council approved the fifth batch of national key units of cultural relics protection list.
In June 28, 2007, "Kaiping watchtowers and the ancient village" for the world cultural heritage projects approved in New Zealand thirty-first session of the World Heritage Convention, officially included in the "World Heritage List", become China thirty-fifth world heritage sites, Chinese born the world heritage project the first overseas Chinese culture. So far, the world heritage Chinese has risen to 43, ranking third in the world.
Kaiping Diaolou fusion of Chinese traditional rural architecture culture and the Northwest Architectural culture unique architectural art, for the multi-storey building, higher than the general residential, than ordinary residential solid and thick, window openings smaller than houses, peripheral iron doors and windows. The upper part of the four corners of the outstanding suspension, pick the closed or semi closed the HORNWORK, can look down from a height into the enemy.